Link redirect Question

[Sheldon Ross]

Another question I have:
Is there an easier way to redirect to secure server.

I've figured out a way to do it.
Basically on a screen I'll have something like:

<a href="$link.setPage('mydir,mytemplate').toString().replaceAll("http:","https:")"> Secure Link</a>

Which works fine in some occasions.

Is there a way to tell turbine to do this in the setTemplate(data,"template") function ?
I would like to be able to automatically redirect to the secure side.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Sheldon

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[Tony Oslund-3]

I while back I had wanted the target web page to determine if it should
be secure or not.  It is a real pain to have to track down links within
your scripts (on the calling side).

What I did was create 2 new classes, SecureForm and RegularForm.  They
both extend VelocitySecureScreen.

If the user accesses a form that extends SecureForm, it automatically
"flips" to a secure session, regardless of whether the original link was
http or https.

Forms extended from RegularForm work in the same fashion, but instead
force http.

There may be a newer, more fancy way of doing this, but if you wish I
will post the code.  It has been in production for the last 4 years so
it is stable.




FYI the following works fine (I use it in my own code).  There was a
glitch early on if the tag was not all upper case.  Also I am not sure
if you can access setAttribute directly on the data object from within
the context of a velocity script.  In my case I create a container
session object that gets put into the session data and then I put the
necessary application specific data within the container so that there
is no chance of having the tag names collide.  I can then access (or
update... yikes) the container object from within my classes, scripts,
etc.

data.getSession().setAttribute("MYCONTAINER", containerObj);
data.getSession().getAttribute("MYCONTAINER");


Tony

-----Original Message-----
From: Sheldon Ross [mailto:ross_sheldon@...]
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 11:31 AM
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Subject: Link redirect Question


Another question I have:
Is there an easier way to redirect to secure server.

I've figured out a way to do it.
Basically on a screen I'll have something like:

<a
href="$link.setPage('mydir,mytemplate').toString().replaceAll("http:","h
ttps:")"> Secure Link</a>

Which works fine in some occasions.

Is there a way to tell turbine to do this in the
setTemplate(data,"template") function ?
I would like to be able to automatically redirect to the secure side.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Sheldon

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[Sheldon Ross]

I would be curious as to how you accomplished the flipping.
I can see that the request object has isSecure(), but I'm still not clear on how I would force a redirect.

Sheldon

> Subject: RE: Link redirect Question
> Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:47:05 -0600
> From: TonyO@...
> To: user@...
>
>
> I while back I had wanted the target web page to determine if it should
> be secure or not.  It is a real pain to have to track down links within
> your scripts (on the calling side).
>
> What I did was create 2 new classes, SecureForm and RegularForm.  They
> both extend VelocitySecureScreen.
>
> If the user accesses a form that extends SecureForm, it automatically
> "flips" to a secure session, regardless of whether the original link was
> http or https.
>
> Forms extended from RegularForm work in the same fashion, but instead
> force http.
>
> There may be a newer, more fancy way of doing this, but if you wish I
> will post the code.  It has been in production for the last 4 years so
> it is stable.
>
>
>
>
> FYI the following works fine (I use it in my own code).  There was a
> glitch early on if the tag was not all upper case.  Also I am not sure
> if you can access setAttribute directly on the data object from within
> the context of a velocity script.  In my case I create a container
> session object that gets put into the session data and then I put the
> necessary application specific data within the container so that there
> is no chance of having the tag names collide.  I can then access (or
> update... yikes) the container object from within my classes, scripts,
> etc.
>
> data.getSession().setAttribute("MYCONTAINER", containerObj);
> data.getSession().getAttribute("MYCONTAINER");
>
>
> Tony
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sheldon Ross [mailto:ross_sheldon@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 11:31 AM
> To: turbine-user@...
> Subject: Link redirect Question
>
>
> Another question I have:
> Is there an easier way to redirect to secure server.
>
> I've figured out a way to do it.
> Basically on a screen I'll have something like:
>
> <a
> href="$link.setPage('mydir,mytemplate').toString().replaceAll("http:","h
> ttps:")"> Secure Link</a>
>
> Which works fine in some occasions.
>
> Is there a way to tell turbine to do this in the
> setTemplate(data,"template") function ?
> I would like to be able to automatically redirect to the secure side.
>
> Any advice would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Sheldon
>
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[Thomas Vandahl-2]

Sheldon Ross wrote:
> Another question I have:
> Is there an easier way to redirect to secure server.
>
> I've figured out a way to do it.
> Basically on a screen I'll have something like:
>
> <a href="$link.setPage('mydir,mytemplate').toString().replaceAll("http:","https:")"> Secure Link</a>

I'd suggest to extend the TemplateLink pull-tool to allow to call
setSecure() on the underlying TemplateLink object. This would allow
something in the line of

#if(!$data.Secure)
$data.Response.setRedirectURI("$link.setPage('mydir,mytemplate').setSecure(true).getAbsoluteLink()");
$data.setStatusCode(302)
#end


Bye, Thomas.

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[Sheldon Ross]

Thanks,
   That works out well.

So at the beginning of my Default.vm I have:

#if($secure && !$data.Request.Secure)
    #set($redirect = $link.setPage($data.getTemplateInfo().getScreenTemplate()).setAction($data.getAction()).setSecure().toString())
    $data.setRedirectURI($redirect)
    $data.setStatusCode(302)
#end

And in any page I want to make secure I just put

#set($secure = true)

at the beginning.

Works like charm!

> Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 15:40:28 +0100
> From: tv@...
> To: user@...
> Subject: Re: Link redirect Question
>
> Sheldon Ross wrote:
> > Another question I have:
> > Is there an easier way to redirect to secure server.
> >
> > I've figured out a way to do it.
> > Basically on a screen I'll have something like:
> >
> > <a href="$link.setPage('mydir,mytemplate').toString().replaceAll("http:","https:")"> Secure Link</a>
>
> I'd suggest to extend the TemplateLink pull-tool to allow to call
> setSecure() on the underlying TemplateLink object. This would allow
> something in the line of
>
> #if(!$data.Secure)
> $data.Response.setRedirectURI("$link.setPage('mydir,mytemplate').setSecure(true).getAbsoluteLink()");
> $data.setStatusCode(302)
> #end
>
>
> Bye, Thomas.
>
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