Configure Tomcat for https without redirects?

[Karen Hartley]

I have just configured my local Tomcat to support https in order to test Firebase messaging on my web app.  I am able to get to my app now via https - however, when Firebase tries to load I get a bunch of errors indicating that there are too many redirects going on for Firebase.  The only redirect is whatever is being done to allow https.

Is there a way to get Tomcat to handle https without incurring redirects in the process?

[Tim Holloway]

Karen Hartley wrote:I have just configured my local Tomcat to support https in order to test Firebase messaging on my web app.  I am able to get to my app now via https - however, when Firebase tries to load I get a bunch of errors indicating that there are too many redirects going on for Firebase.  The only redirect is whatever is being done to allow https.

Is there a way to get Tomcat to handle https without incurring redirects in the process?

Welcome to the JavaRanch, Karen!

I don't think that Tomcat itself generates redirects for HTTPS. Generally speaking, you direct HTTP to port 8080 (by default) and to port 8443 (if you have default HTTPS). You will have some redirection done if a user requests a URL whose transport-guarantee in the WEB-INF/web.xml demands secure transport, but actually, I'm not sure how much of that is generated by Tomcat and how much simply bounces if you don't use the right protocol to begin with. That would be defined by the J2EE spec, not anything specific to Tomcat.

[Karen Hartley]

Well, I'm accessing my page using the URL https://myapp.com:8443/app.jsp so I would *think* no redirects would need to happen - app.jsp is where the Firebase.js is loaded, and that is where the errors are showing up.  I can't think of a more direct way to go to the page, so the redirects must be something that Tomcat is doing under the covers, so to speak.

[Tim Holloway]

Since Firebase is itself doing web operations, I think you'll have to consider this to be something not quite right with your Firebase setup.

Unfortunately, I know nothing of Firebase, so I can't help there.