[dancer-users] redirects with SSL

[Chad Wallace]

On Sun, 20 Mar 2016 15:12:34 -0700
Chad Wallace <cwallace at lodgingcompany.com> wrote:

> 
> > > > Our systems sit behind a load balancer which off-loads SSL, so
> > > > dancer only ever sees http connections. It mostly does not
> > > > matter as the load balancer handles the reverse. However using
> > > > the built in redirect is the issue as dancer only knows that
> > > > the connection (inside the network) is http. It is not aware
> > > > that it actually is https. So the redirect header of course
> > > > sends out an http link. Is there any way to configure this so
> > > > it is made aware of the fact that it needs to be https?
> > > 
> > > Have you tried setting the behind_proxy config parameter to true?
> > 
> > No I was not aware of that. Looking at that now
> 
> Did this work out for you?  I'm currently trying to deploy a similar
> setup, with X-Forwarded-Host and X-Forwarded-Protocol as suggested in
> Dancer2::Config, but the "behind_proxy" config setting is being
> ornery.  I've got it set to 1 in all three config files (overkill),
> and the "is_behind_proxy" request flag is ALWAYS 0!

> PS, I'm using Dancer2 0.152000 on Debian Jessie.

Looks like this is already fixed... 

https://github.com/PerlDancer/Dancer2/issues/730



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