redirect - Redirection on Apache (Maintain POST params)

Question

I have Apache installed on my server and I need to redirect from http to https. The reason for this is our load balancer solution cannot hand https so requests come in on http and then we transfer them to https using the below lines in the httpd.conf file.

<VirtualHost 10.1.2.91:80>
     Redirect 302 /GladQE/link https://glad-test.com/GladQE/link.do
</VirtualHost>

This works fine for GET requests but POST requests will lose the parameters passed on the URL. What would be the easiest way to perform this redirect and maintain POST params?

I need to get from http://glad-test.com/GladQE/link.do to here https://glad-test.com/GladQE/link.do maintaining POST params

Thanks

Tom

Answer 1

You can try with the HTTP status code 307, a RFC compilant browser should repeat the post request. Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes

In contrast to how 302 was historically implemented, the request method is not allowed to be changed when reissuing the original request. For instance, a POST request should be repeated using another POST request.

To change from 302 to 307, do that:

<VirtualHost 10.1.2.91:80>
     Redirect 307 /GladQE/link https://glad-test.com/GladQE/link.do
</VirtualHost>