I don't know. Maybe some applications will not be able to have HTTPS.
A realm may want to allow an application to receive auth code redirects
over an unsecure channel.
On 1/10/2014 11:49 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
Yer, but does it have to be a per-realm thing? It makes more sense to
me that by default all traffic to Keycloak is required to be https, unless you explicitly
disable it (for dev).
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Burke" <bburke(a)redhat.com>
> To: keycloak-dev(a)lists.jboss.org
> Sent: Friday, 10 January, 2014 4:32:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [keycloak-dev] Isn't SSL required a global setting?
>
> "Require SSL" is mainly used to force application/oauth redirect URLs to
> be HTTPS endpoints. Otherwise, auth codes (not tokens) are transmitted
> in the clear back to the application. A nice side-effect is that if the
> admin forgets to set up web.xml, the token service will barf too :)
>
> On 1/10/2014 11:24 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
>> At the moment we have a SSL required setting per-realm. I was thinking that
>> it should be a global configuration for a Keycloak server. In production
>> all requests to a Keycloak server should be over https, while in
>> development it should be possible to use http for simplicity. That's not a
>> per-realm thing IMO.
>>
>> If it's ok that it's a global config, we can drop it from the realm and
>> instead add:
>>
>> <security-constraint>
>> <web-resource-collection>
>> <web-resource-name>keycloak</web-resource-name>
>> <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
>> </web-resource-collection>
>> <user-data-constraint>
>> <transport-guarantee>CONFIDENTIAL</transport-guarantee>
>> </user-data-constraint>
>> </security-constraint>
>>
>> To the web.xml in the distribution. In the documentation we should then
>> have two options, first how to configure SSL on WildFly, second how to
>> allow HTTP (with a warning that it's only for development!).
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