SSL and WebCT application header

[smorytko]

We've traced a problem with our setup of a CSS11503 w/ 1 SSL card and WebCT/Vista to the following cause.

The WebCT/Vista app expects to see the header

WL-Proxy-SSL: true

with every HTTP request, so we added the following line to to the ssl-proxy-list section of our config:

ssl-server 20 http-header static "WL-Proxy-SSL: true"

but as we have since discovered in the following Cisco web documentation (look for the 'Note' on the linked page)

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/webscale/css/css_740/cmdrefgd/cmdsslc.htm#wp1172789

"HTTP header insertion only occurs on the first HTTP request for a persistent HTTP 1.1 connection. Subsequent requests within the same TCP connection are sent unmodified."

In other words, WebCT/Vista is not always getting this header (I've verified this via network traces), and this is what is causing the application to fail.

It there a way to get CSS11503 to include the header for *all* HTTP requests?

I've attached relevant parts of our config file.

Thanks in advance.

Steve

[Gilles Dufour]

there is no way to force the css to insert it for every request.

Only solution is to disable persistence on the server.

Force the server to work in HTTP/1.0 mode.

A feature request has already been intoduced to have the info inserted in every request.

Gilles.