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IBM Cognos 10 Platform => Cognos 10 BI => Cognos Administration => Topic started by: Gene on 15 Jul 2015 03:54:42 PM

Title: Is it possible to support users using both HTTP and HTTPS?
Post by: Gene on 15 Jul 2015 03:54:42 PM
I have Cognos environment set up to serve corporate intranet users using HTTP protocol.

However now I have a requirement to be able to support HTTPS as well (in order to run Cognos reports via IBM Watson Analytics).

I don't want to inconvenience hundreds of existing users asking them to change to HTTPS, so ideally I would like to enable my existing Cognos environment to keep support for HTTP while also allowing HTTPS.

Is that technically possible?  If yes, is there a cookbook for configuration?

Thanks in advance,

Gene
Title: Re: Is it possible to support users using both HTTP and HTTPS?
Post by: bdbits on 15 Jul 2015 05:43:15 PM
Are you mostly worried about the users' bookmarks/favorites, links to your site, etc.? If that is your concern, you can pretty easily redirect anyone who tries to use the http URL over to the https URL. In the long run, I think that is a better solution for everyone.
Title: Re: Is it possible to support users using both HTTP and HTTPS?
Post by: BMbabu on 30 Jul 2015 09:29:43 AM
Hi

Yes it's possible, both will work.
For these type of tasks their is no Cook books.

Regards,
Madhu B
Title: Re: Is it possible to support users using both HTTP and HTTPS?
Post by: mrcool on 31 Jul 2015 04:41:06 AM
Quote from: Gene on 15 Jul 2015 03:54:42 PM
I have Cognos environment set up to serve corporate intranet users using HTTP protocol.

However now I have a requirement to be able to support HTTPS as well (in order to run Cognos reports via IBM Watson Analytics).

I don't want to inconvenience hundreds of existing users asking them to change to HTTPS, so ideally I would like to enable my existing Cognos environment to keep support for HTTP while also allowing HTTPS.

Is that technically possible?  If yes, is there a cookbook for configuration?

Thanks in advance,

Gene

Hi Gene,

There is something called redirect in IIS which will redirect the http requests to https. If you don't want re direction just allow port 80 and 443.

mc.