[ColdBox-4.3] event.buildLink() returning IP instead of URL with server name

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Hi,

In my handler I define a variable in the PRC as an exit handler to use for action in my Login Form

prc.exHandler = event.buildLink( ‘security.Home.doLogin’ );

The expected value is something like this

https://mydomain.org/security/Home/doLogin

By get this

https://74.127.59.243/security/Home/doLogin

So when the form is submitted and as I am using SSL the connection is seen as it comes from an “untrusted” domain. Only when I restart the framework it starts working as expected.

Why this could be happening?.

Thanks.

Angel

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The domain is retrieved from the SESBaseURL, which is set in the Routes.cfm.
If you took the standard Routes.cfm it has a line

`
setBaseURL(“http://#cgi.HTTP_HOST#”);

`

This means the domain will be set to the HTTP_HOST of your first request to the application (which was probably 74.127.59.243).
To avoid this, you can either hardcode the BaseURL in the Routes.cfm or use the baseURL argument in buildlink()

Pascal

3

Pascal, thanks for your response.

Yes I use the standard Routes.cfm the problem in harcoding that is that it varies according to the environment i.e.
http://dev.mydomain.org, https://staging.mydomain.org, https://mydomain.org, the same case for using the BaseURL argument in buildLink

Maybe I will need to check the IP to see if I’m on production, but the think is that staging is the same IP, I’m just using a subdomain.
What would be the difference if I use CGI.SERVER_NAME instead?

Thanks.

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This is actually fixed in ColdBox 5.0 where the SESBaseUrl supports multiple domains. It doesn’t cache the value anymore, but gets it from the CGI.HTTP_HOST on each request.

The way we fixed this before was using a requestContextDecorator to fix the buildlink method.

5

You just need to install the ses-on-request module. It uses whatever host is in the URL for the base URL. Alternatively, if you only ever want your app to use a single host for all URLs, just hard code it in routes.cfm and stop using cgi.http_host, which will just pick up whatever host is being used at the time the framework reinits.

Thanks!

~Brad

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Ok, I will install the ses-on-request module.

Thanks Pascal and Brad

Angel