[Chilli] SSL on Chili

Johan Meiring jmeiring at amobia.com
Thu Nov 19 20:24:00 UTC 2009


Fernando Dutra Fagundes Macedo wrote:
> I think that I wasn't enough clear describing the problem in the last 
> message. I'll try to explain this issue with more details:
> 
> The problem happens When coova chilli is configured to work with ssl and 
> a client tries to connect to a http server (port 80). In this 
> sittuation, coova redirects the connection to port 3990 which is working 
> with ssl. Although, the client have made a request to connect to a http 
> server, not https. So, the ssl negotiation fails, the client didn't 
> connect properly and presents a blank page to the user.
> 
> We have been trying to solve this issue but we hadn't any good ideas 
> until now. The best solution we thought was to redirect the connection 
> to apache and after do a http redirection from http to https and then 
> return back the connection to coova.
> 

Why are you (or is) chilli using ssl.  There is no point, as chilli only 
redirects to the UAM page agian, which may be SSL without issues....

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Johan Meiring
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