HTTP redirect to HTTPS for web UI

[Lei YU]

On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 11:20 PM Brad Bishop <bradleyb at fuzziesquirrel.com> wrote:
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> > On Oct 31, 2019, at 9:45 AM, George Liu <liuxiwei1013 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hi All:
> > I'm working on http redirect to https task(https://github.com/ibm-openbmc/dev/issues/895).
> > I took a cursory look at the design(https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/c/openbmc/docs/+/24173) and did some testing.
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> > In bmcweb, I find it the current communication logic can only listen to one communication protocol (http or https). If you listen to both protocols at the same time, you need to change a lot of code and communication logic.
> > If we are going to implement this feature in bmcweb, it costs extra effort and it's likely the implementation is no better than Nginx. so I prefer to use Nginx.
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> > Please everyone stay here to discuss and leave your comments.
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> > Thanks!
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> Hi George
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> I see you implemented this here:
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> https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/c/openbmc/meta-openpower/+/28099
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> I’d like to propose this go in meta-phosphor and not meta-openpower.  Does anyone have thoughts on whether or not this should be enabled or disabled by default?

As I remember we had some discussion in the mailing list, and Intel
indicated that it's not a wanted feature.
But it does make sense to put the recipe into meta-phosphor, and one
could enable it in some company or machine layer.