Log in problems through an ISA server - HTML clients

MariaG

Active Member
Hi everyone,
Can anyone help with this please?
Thanks.

We are having an issue attempting to get users to log in to HTML JDE through
a Microsoft ISA server. This is a server designed to publish multiple
private web application to the outside world. Since implementing service
pack 17.1 this has no longer been functioning for JDE. Although the user can
see the log in page when they click the log in button they receive an error
"page not found".

We believe the source of this is the presence of an absolute path in the log
in page. see the following two extracts from the HTML log in pages for a
graphic illustration....

This is just one line out of the service pack 15.1 HTML log in page:

<FORM NAME=JDE METHOD=post ACTION=/servlet/html.login>

Notice how the path is a relative path on the action command.



Now this is a similar line from the log in page on service pack 17.1:

<FORM NAME="F1" ID="F1" METHOD="POST"
ACTION="http://webservername.uk:82/jde/servlet/html.login">

Notice that this time the path on the action command is now an absolute
path.


We believe that the browser for a client in the "outside" world cannot
resolve this as it is a private address. Previously on service pack 15.1. as
the address was relative then the browser and ISA server could handle this,
in fact that's exactly how the ISA is designed by Microsoft.

Is this a JDE problem? Most probably as once the user is logged in, all
paths in the HTML delivered to the browser are relative.
 
We' re not using ISA so I may have teh wrong end of the stick but ........

SP18 - a quick look through our "starting" pages like owhtml/index.html etc. all seem to have relative paths - which is what they'd have to be as we run two virtual hosts on each physical machine - and hence using the same html file.

If you've got _your_ server named in the source then surely that must have been a local edit?
 
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