Spring redirect url issue when behind Zuul proxy

Question

I\'ve been trying to get to the bottom of a strange redirection issue for the past 2 days without success.

Based on the spring-cloud example projects, I\'ve configured E

Answer 1

As you can see RedirectView ignores X-FORWARDED-* headers. Simply put, you can't use "redirect:/account".

Instead instantiate a RedirectView and configure it accordingly:

RedirectView redirect = new RedirectView("account");
redirect.setHosts(new String[]{ request.getHeader("X-FORWARDED-HOST") });

Since Spring Framework 4.3 (currently RC1) setHosts method is available.

Answer 2

If you are using tomcat as embeded server in your backend app, you could use this settings (application.properties, yml, etc):

server.tomcat.remote_ip_header=x-forwarded-for
server.tomcat.protocol_header=x-forwarded-proto

Or more generic way:

server.use-forward-headers=true