My name is Adrian Smith.

I am a software developer, software architect and performance consultant. Originally from the UK, working in Vienna since 1998. These days I mainly work on web software using Java.

This is my blog, where I write about topics such as: software architecture, programming languages, databases and others.
(And, ocassionally, my life.)

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How to prevent Jetty, deployed via Docker on AWS ECS, behind an AWS ELB, redirecting from secure HTTPS to insecure HTTP—So this is your setup. You've using Jetty to serve your web application, and you're deploying it via Docker to AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS), and you place it behind an AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB). You aren't living in the past so you enable HTTPS on the ELB. Your clients connect via HTTPS to the ELB, and the ELB connects to your application via HTTP internally to AWS. So the last thing you want is for users to receive a redirect from secure HTTPS to insecure HTTP. Read more...

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