Why is SQL Server Report Server 2005 / 2008 hardcoded to http://?

I use a Ap开发者_高级运维ache server as frontend balancer. So I also pass requests to a SQL Server Report Server. The main URL is SSL secured, so the ProxyPass through the RS works with basic auth.

The report server has a interesting issue. Most of the links in the report server seems to be hardcoded http://. With that issue, many links you click on the /reports URL gives you a "Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)" from the Apache front end server.

You can browse reports, you can open them, but if you click e.g. the root link on top or the view details link to switch the list mode, then the report server uses http://yourserver/reports/... which results in an error. Correct links are https:// in this setup.

Link which are not http:// hardcoded works so far.

I opened a support ticket at Microsoft already which escalated to redmond to the dev team. The result was... this is by design and can't be changed. Is MS really so censored? Anyway. Did anyone face the same situation and got a workaround to fix that?

I am not that familiar with Apache config, but maybe is there a way to do a URL rewrite within the Apache? So if the Apache gets an http://myfrontendurl/reports/... it replaces the request with https:// ?

I'd recommend deactivating the http access from the Reporting Services Configuration tool and seeing what happens.