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Reputation: 58632

Google Appengine redirecting to weird url

Recently when I have been handshaking(oauth flow) with facecbook, when the callback returns google is sending it to : http://<version>-dot-<app_id>.appspot.com

I send out a callback in the form https://<app_id>.appspot.com/bah/facebook_callback and it comes back as http://<version>-dot-<app_id>.appspot.com/bah/facebook_callback

Previously it was working fine, no code changes what so ever.. is this SDK 1.6.6 related?

Does anyone know why, or can explain to me how to not allow this to happen ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 151

Answers (1)

Peter Knego
Peter Knego

Reputation: 80350

GAE actually maps this Urls to the same instance: http://<version>-dot-<app_id>.appspot.com maps same way as http://<version>.<app_id>.appspot.com

This is being done to work around some browser limitation on wildcard SSL certificates: certificate for *.domain.com will not be allowed by browsers for domain *.*.domain.com

So Google maps *.* to *-dot-* as a workaround and uses alternative notation during QAuth process.

See this: https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/config/webxml#Secure_URLs

And this: Wildcard subdomains on appengine over https on firefox

Upvotes: 1

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