Tapestry with Jetty behind https frontend

[Ilya Obshadko]

Probably this has been asked already, but I couldn't manage to find a
solution that works.

I have an https frontend and Jetty 8 server with Tapestry application
behind.
I've carefully read http://wiki.eclipse.org/Jetty/Howto/Configure_mod_proxy

After setting up Jetty extension from
https://bitbucket.org/Nowaker/jetty-https page URLs are fine.

However, request.isSecure () still returns false and each time I need to
reliably detect if we're on HTTPS, I have to check for extra HTTP header:

    private boolean isHttpsRequest () {

        return request.isSecure () || "https".equalsIgnoreCase (
request.getHeader
( "X-Forwarded-Proto" ) ) ;

    }

- which is not very convenient, because I have to do that every time I use,
for example, Link.toAbsoluteUri ( isSecure ).

Is there any better way to do that?


-- 
Ilya Obshadko