Glassfish v4 - java 7 - Port Unification - Error - not able to redirect http to https - glassfish-4

Question

I am trying to use port unification for glassfish 4 to redirect any http request to https. I could easily do this with V3 but I am having issues with glassfish v4 - Java 1.7.
Commands that I executed in glassfish v4 -
asadmin create-protocol --securityenabled=false http-redirect
asadmin create-protocol-filter --protocol http-redirect --classname org.glassfish.grizzly.config.portunif.HttpRedirectFilter redirect-filter
asadmin create-protocol --securityenabled=false pu-protocol
asadmin create-protocol-finder --protocol pu-protocol --targetprotocol http-listener-2 --classname org.glassfish.grizzly.config.portunif.HttpProtocolFinder http-finder
asadmin create-protocol-finder --protocol pu-protocol --targetprotocol http-redirect --classname org.glassfish.grizzly.config.portunif.HttpProtocolFinder http-redirect
set configs.config.server-config.network-config.network-listeners.network-listener.http-listener-1.protocol=pu-protocol
All the above command execute without errors. However when I try accessing the web it throws exception and the http address does not launch - localhost:8080 fails
Exception in Glassfish -
WARNING: Exception during FilterChain execution
java.lang.ClassCastException: org.glassfish.grizzly.memory.HeapMemoryManager$TrimmableHeapBuffer cannot be cast to org.glassfish.grizzly.http.HttpContent
at org.glassfish.grizzly.config.portunif.HttpRedirectFilter.handleRead(HttpRedirectFilter.java:99)
at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.ExecutorResolver$9.execute(ExecutorResolver.java:119)
at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.executeFilter(DefaultFilterChain.java:288)
at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.executeChainPart(DefaultFilterChain.java:206)
at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.execute(DefaultFilterChain.java:136)
at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.process(DefaultFilterChain.java:114)
at org.glassfish.grizzly.ProcessorExecutor.execute(ProcessorExecutor.java:77)
at org.glassfish.grizzly.portunif.PUFilter.handleRead(PUFilter.java:231)
at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.ExecutorResolver$9.execute(ExecutorResolver.java:119)
at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.executeFilter(DefaultFilterChain.java:288)
at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.executeChainPart(DefaultFilterChain.java:206)
at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.execute(DefaultFilterChain.java:136)
at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.process(DefaultFilterChain.java:114)
at org.glassfish.grizzly.ProcessorExecutor.execute(ProcessorExecutor.java:77)
at org.glassfish.grizzly.nio.transport.TCPNIOTransport.fireIOEvent(TCPNIOTransport.java:838)
at org.glassfish.grizzly.strategies.AbstractIOStrategy.fireIOEvent(AbstractIOStrategy.java:113)
at org.glassfish.grizzly.strategies.WorkerThreadIOStrategy.run0(WorkerThreadIOStrategy.java:115)
at org.glassfish.grizzly.strategies.WorkerThreadIOStrategy.access$100(WorkerThreadIOStrategy.java:55)
at org.glassfish.grizzly.strategies.WorkerThreadIOStrategy$WorkerThreadRunnable.run(WorkerThreadIOStrategy.java:135)
at org.glassfish.grizzly.threadpool.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.doWork(AbstractThreadPool.java:564)
at org.glassfish.grizzly.threadpool.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.run(AbstractThreadPool.java:544)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
Appreciate it if this can be resolved, is there any other way to do port redirection from http to https?

Answer 1

Make sure your last command includes "asadmin" as set is a DOS command.
This worked for me with GlassFish 4.0 when I used the following commands (although it looks pretty similar to yours):
asadmin create-protocol --securityenabled=false http-redirect
asadmin create-http-redirect --redirect-port 8181 --secure-redirect true http-redirect
asadmin create-protocol --securityenabled=false pu-protocol
asadmin create-protocol-filter --protocol http-redirect --classname org.glassfish.grizzly.config.portunif.HttpRedirectFilter redirect-filter
asadmin create-protocol-finder --protocol pu-protocol --targetprotocol http-listener-2 --classname org.glassfish.grizzly.config.portunif.HttpProtocolFinder http-finder
asadmin create-protocol-finder --protocol pu-protocol --targetprotocol http-redirect --classname org.glassfish.grizzly.config.portunif.HttpProtocolFinder http-redirect
asadmin set configs.config.server-config.network-config.network-listeners.network-listener.http-listener-1.protocol=pu-protocol
I have noticed that the this causes the HTTP tab for http-listener-1 (Configurations --> server-config --> Network Config --> Network Listeners --> http-listener-1 --> SSL tab) to no longer display. Not an issue for me.

Answer 2

So I'm not sure why, but when I used the protocol name pu-protocol it would not configure correctly and it would not show up in the Admin console under the protocols list. All I had to do was use a different name for the protocol and everything worked fine. I used the name portunif-protocol and as soon as I ran the command to create it, it showed up in the Glassfish Admin console under the Protocols section as you would expect. Now I've got my site redirecting to https as desired!
Commands I used:
asadmin create-protocol --securityenabled=false http-redirect
asadmin create-http-redirect --redirect-port 443 --secure-redirect true http-redirect
asadmin create-protocol --securityenabled=false portunif-protocol
asadmin create-protocol-filter --protocol http-redirect --classname org.glassfish.grizzly.config.portunif.HttpRedirectFilter redirect-filter
asadmin create-protocol-finder --protocol portunif-protocol --targetprotocol http-listener-2 --classname org.glassfish.grizzly.config.portunif.HttpProtocolFinder http-finder
asadmin create-protocol-finder --protocol portunif-protocol --targetprotocol http-redirect --classname org.glassfish.grizzly.config.portunif.HttpProtocolFinder http-redirect
asadmin set configs.config.server-config.network-config.network-listeners.network-listener.http-listener-1.protocol=portunif-protocol
Hope that helps anyone else that may have ran into the same issue I did.