I already tried to create a proxy server on heroku using java, python and nodejs but for some reason I can't.
I can only use port 80 so I would need to use the proxy as appname.herokuapp.com:80 but I get the response as "app doesn't exist".
Is this possible or not? Is there any alternative for what I want to do?
The Heroku routing layer routes your http requests based on the Host header it finds in the HTTP request from your client. And if you have your own endpoint, it at least validates that the Host header content is one of your apps' domains.
If you look at this answer you see that the Host header contains the name of the server you are trying to reach through the proxy server, not the proxy itself.
So there is no way you can run a http proxy server on heroku.
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My Spring app uses lets encrypt and is https only. I did not include http to https thing, as it worked for me in postman with https:// format
When I deployed to Cloud Run, and mentioned the custom port (the port specified in spring)
and tested using URL from dashboard
https://..blah..run.app
I am getting error/message
Bad Request
This combination of host and port requires TLS.
What configuration is required on Cloud Run to resolve this?
The url as I see on service details page has htpps://...
EDIT:
If Cloudrun does not need me to take case of SSL, I can remove the application properties entries
server.ssl.key-store-type=PKCS12
server.ssl.key-store=classpath:key/keystore.p12
server.ssl.key-store-password=${lets.secret}
server.ssl.key-alias=someCertAlias
server.ssl.enabled=true
So Can I get an answer on whether to remove SSL from spring?
If cloudrun always uses http, all my calls use redirectConnector, which seems pointless
The Cloud Run Service listens on HTTP and HTTPS. Your application running in the container must listen on a port configured with HTTP only.
FYI: For a public facing web server, you should almost always enable HTTP. Otherwise, when a user enters www.example.com in the browser, the user will receive a connect error. This not always the case, for example .dev gTLDs, but is good practice. When a user connects to Cloud Run with the HTTP protocol, Cloud Run will redirect the user to HTTPS and connect to your application using the HTTP protocol.
I purchased a domain (say, example.com) from Google and my Django application (say, mysite.herokuapp.com) runs on Heroku. The CNAME is set on Google to forward the http requests to the Django applicaiton on Heroku. Forwarding requests from http://mysite.example.com to mysite.herokuapp.com works just fine.
Recently, I need to introduce progressive-web-application to my application and it requires the https protocol, instead of http, that is, the URL now has to be https://mysite.example.com and it doesn't work for Google domains. I tried https://mysite.herokuapp.com and it works fine, which means Heroku already supports https. However, I tried (and also googled) for a long time without finding a solution.
So how do I set the Google domain to use https protocol?
The DNS answer from Google cannot contain the port or protocol (http vs. https), it just contains the hostname.
You need to add a redirect from http to https in the Heroku django app, see e.g. here for more instructions.
It's not Google you need to change, it's your Django configuration.
Set SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT to True, and enable the SecurityMiddleware in your app, and any requests should automatically be redirected from HTTP to HTTPS.
When switching to HTTPS you need to add certs to heroku and that process updates the host from "mysite.heroku.com" to something like "tokyo-2121.herokussl.com". You will need to update your DNS to serve HTTPS pages from the new SSL compliant heroku instance for both HTTP and HTTPS.
Here is a tutorial that outlines the process with Godaddy, it should be very similar or all DNS providers.
http://www.joshwright.com/tips/setup-a-godaddy-ssl-certificate-on-heroku
Just got a solution from one of Heroku's engineers:
1) Upgrade the Heroku app to a paid one (e.g., Hobby)
2) On the DNS provider's settings, set the DNS target to <app_name>.<domain>.herokudns.com (e.g., "mysite.example.com.herokudns.com")
3) Run $ heroku certs:auto:refresh -a <app_name> (e.g., $ heroku certs:auto:refresh -a mysite)
I'm not sure if this is the same problem that you ran into, but when forwarding from https://example.com to my wix subdomain https://learn.example.com, I got a "No resource with given identifier found" error in the browser. Forwarding from http://example.com to https://learn.example.com was working just fine.
I had to open Google Domains' advanced forwarding options for my forwarding rule and enable SSL forwarding, like so:
I'm trying t use Ngrok to create a local tunnel to an SSL Virtual host I have on my local machine, but can't seem to get it to work.
My Vhost works perfectly. The site is https://local.mysite.com
Any of the command I try to use to predefine the pointing url on Ngrok, e.g.
./ngrok http -host-header=rewrite local.mysite.com:443
or
./ngrok http -subdomain=local.mysite.com local.mysite.com:443
always seems to return:
Bad Request
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Reason: You're speaking plain HTTP to an SSL-enabled server port.
Instead use the HTTPS scheme to access this URL, please.
I get that this is happening because I am trying to access a HTTPS connection via a HTTP call but I can't see alternatives in the ngrok docs.
https://ngrok.com/docs#expose
You need to use tls which is only available in the pro subscription.
If you use Vagrant, you can use the share function which is free and support https.
I am writing a javascript/strophejs xmpp client, and have been so far using it to connect to a xmpp server hosted at hosted.im, via a public BOSH service (http://bosh.metajack.im:5280/xmpp-httpbind). The html/javascript is also hosted online, at testserver.host56.com (not the real url).
Now, I decided to host the xmpp server on the amazon web cloud, and use my own Bosh service, hosted on this server as well.
Now, my ec2 instance is at myAWSDNS.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com (also not real url).
I also have a BOSH service up and running, at myAWSDNS.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:7070.
Finally, I have also allowed traffic to this ec2 instance through both the instances firewall and through the AWS Security Group policy.
However, when trying to connect to this instance's xmpp server (openfire), using my JS/strophejs client, I get the following message in the Chrome javascript console:
XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://myAWSDNS.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:7070/. No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://myAWSDNS.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com' is therefore not allowed access
Why am I getting this issue, if the origin is on the same domain as the requested resource?
The Ec2 instance is running Windows Server 2012.
This is the code I use to log in:
var conn = new Strophe.Connection("http://myAWSDNS.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:7070/");
conn.connect("chris#myAWSDNS.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com", "myPassword", somecallback);
Thanks,
best regards,
Chris
As previously mentioned, even if you're on the same domain, the ports must also match otherwise CORS is required.
You may not be using the correct URL for your connection manager, all of the ones I've seen use an address ending in /http-bind/ or similar.
Have you tried connecting with Strophe.Connection("http://myAWSDNS.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:7070/http-bind/");?
Also, you can test for the presence of the crossdomain.xml file by simply visiting http://myAWSDNS.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:7070/crossdomain.xml to ensure that CORS has been successfully enabled.
The browser will not allow since the ports are different. I don't know what you have at AWS, but you can proxy the request in both direction, like as:
http://myAWSDNS.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/http-bind/ <---------> http://myAWSDNS.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:7070/
See item no 5: Connecting with Strophe.js of the tutorial for Apache use case.
I followed the example in the following SO question to successfully set up an Apache forwarding proxy: Setting up an Apache Proxy with Authentication
It works well, except that when accessing sites via https, it says it cannot find the site. For example, Chrome gives
Error 111 (net::ERR_TUNNEL_CONNECTION_FAILED): Unknown error.
And on the server, I do not even see something in the access logs. For my proxy settings, I have configured the same for http and https (i.e. port 80 on my proxy server).
Do you perhaps have an example of how to set up a forward proxy with Apache for https?
It seems the only thing I was missing is that I had not enabled mod_proxy_connect which was achieved with
sudo a2enmod proxy_connect
To quote the mod_proxy_connect documentation page:
This module requires the service of mod_proxy. It provides support for
the CONNECT HTTP method. This method is mainly used to tunnel SSL
requests through proxy servers.
Are you attempting to terminate the SSL or just trying to create a forward proxy without handling any SSL certs? The issue that you are having is because during HTTPS proxying, the browser attempts to create an HTTP tunnel and it seems that your server is not correctly configured to handle tunneling. You can see another example here: Implementing a Simple HTTPS Proxy Application.
Here is another helpful thread on proxying HTTPS traffic with HTTP tunneling: Tunnel over HTTPS.
If you can choose something else other than Apache, I would suggest you use a robust forward proxy such as Squid or TrafficServer that are built to handle this type of setup.