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WebSphere Liberty

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Examine X-Forwarded-Proto header in Liberty to support SSL termination at router

Applications in Liberty that require a secure connection, which include the product apps RESTConnector and apiDiscovery, cannot be accessed in environments where SSL termination is performed at the router but private WebSphere headers can't be set...
about 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Delivered

Liberty behind proxy

Many load balancers / reverse proxies implement a defacto-standard set of headers which tells the backend server in question that a request was forwarded through a proxy and gives additional indications on original protocol. A Reverse Proxy common...
almost 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Delivered

OpenLiberty S2I Builder should create a product-based image

The existing OpenLiberty S2I builder image should be enhanced (or replaced) so we can build images based on IBM WebSphere Liberty.
about 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Delivered

Add timeout option to server stop command

For Traditional and Base Websphere, we are able to specify the timeout when executing stopServer server1 -timeout 60. Can similar functionality be added to Liberty's server stop command? This will enable us to take correction action sooner whe...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Delivered

Request WLP and WLP IHS plugin to have built-in validation mechanism for 2-way SSL inbound request

We would like to request WLP and WLP IHS plugin to have built-in mechanism to verify if request information received by WLP is from trusted WLP IHS plugin and the information has not been altered during transmission.
over 9 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Delivered

Update error messages for non-async servletfilters .

This was a pmr /case TS000806721 and it was agreed to post it as a RFE. I am using latest liberty profile 17.0.0.x (tried .2 and .3) with theshipped JDK8 from wasdev. I also tried openliberty with the same result. If you use Servlet's asyncrespons...
over 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Delivered

Enable trustedSensitiveHeaderOrigin to be configured with a IP segment

-trustedSensitiveHeaderOriginthe "trustedSensitiveHeaderOrigin" property should be configured with a comma-separated list of IP addresses corresponding to those of any WebSphere-aware proxy servers in front of the WebSphere server. -trustedSensiti...
over 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Delivered

Coexistence of multiple authentication mechanisms for a single service in Liberty

Liberty has limited support to have multiple authentication mechanisms to a service when one of them is SPNEGO. With custom TAI and the method isTargetInterceptor you could determine if this interceptor should handle the request. The method has th...
over 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Delivered

WLP 20.0.0.x EclipseLink DB2Platform no longer binds Literals as Parameters

EclipseLink DB2Platform no longer binds Literals as Parameters (DB2Platform.java#L74 => this.shouldBindLiterals = false;) We are using EclipseLink packaged within Websphere Liberty Profile (WLP) version 20.0.0.x in combination with DB2. WLP 20....
almost 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 3 Delivered

manually update the configuration of a running Liberty

Provide a way to manually update the configuration of a running Liberty server when dynamic configuration updates have been disabled.For example, an mBean limited to role 'Administrator' and a REST API to drive a configuration refresh.For Liberty ...
about 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Delivered