Rewriting redirect URLs

[Subbu Allamaraju <subbu@bea.com>]

I would like to bring the question of rewriting redirect URLs again.

Per the spec, redirect URLs are required to be absolute, and there is no 
requirement for the consumer to rewrite redirect URLs.

The need for absolute URLs makes sense since the consumer does not know 
how to redirect to the producer over http. It only knows about the SOAP 
end point.

However, there is still a use case that can benefit from rewriting 
redirect URLs. This use case was discussed during the JSR286 meeting, 
and I would like to see what the TC thinks about this. Here it is.

During pbia, a portlet would like to redirect the client to an external 
URL. In that URL, the portlet encodes an action/render URL that the 
external site will redirect to, once the user exits the external 
application.

In this use case, the redirect URL might look like

"http://blah.com/blah/blah?returnTo=wsrp_rewrite?wsrp-urlType=render&.../wsrp_rewrite";

The portlet may also want to embed portlet's context and state in this URL.

When consumer rewriting is enabled, it will have to use rewrite tokens 
to create this return URL.

For this use case to work, the redirect URL needs to rewritten by the 
consumer.

Any comments on this use case?

Subbu