Apache + SP HTTP reverse proxy to Weblogic

Kevin P. Foote kpfoote at iup.edu
Fri Nov 18 13:58:08 GMT 2011


-> > Oracle (well, BEA) provided mod_wl (as in "weblogic") for that, IIRC but I have no idea how to pass envvars though that (or how it interacts with mod_shib, if mod_wl still even exists).
-> 
-> Oracle Weblogic no longer talks AJP at all. And mod_wl_22 is nothing more than an HTTP proxy. *grumbles*
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-> > Yes. Still preferable to trying to get SAML to work (and keep things working over releases) in Weblogic, I suppose.
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-> Yes. I am extremely wary of the built in SAML implementation stuff.

It "works" (if you call it that) very clunky and cumbersome. Even then
I've only gotten SAML 1 to work in straight Weblogic. 

Now that I know mod_wl_22 is just a HTTP proxy I think I'll dump the
oracle web tier and use stock RHEL Apache - thanks for sharing :) 

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thanks
  kevin.foote

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-> - Andy.
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-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: users-bounces at shibboleth.net [mailto:users-bounces at shibboleth.net] On Behalf Of Peter Schober
-> Sent: 18 November 2011 12:31
-> To: users at shibboleth.net
-> Subject: Re: Apache + SP HTTP reverse proxy to Weblogic
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-> * Sykes, Andy <a.sykes at ucl.ac.uk> [2011-11-18 13:09]:
-> > Weblogic doesn't speak AJP13. It really should, but it doesn't.
-> 
-> Oracle (well, BEA) provided mod_wl (as in "weblogic") for that, IIRC but I have no idea how to pass envvars though that (or how it interacts with mod_shib, if mod_wl still even exists).
-> 
-> > So I'm left with only a plain old dumb HTTP proxy, which I can't 
-> > squirt env vars through. I can switch to request headers, but that is 
-> > very much frowned upon.
-> 
-> Yes. Still preferable to trying to get SAML to work (and keep things working over releases) in Weblogic, I suppose.
-> -peter
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