[TYPO3-english] TYPO3 behind a CDN and checkValidBrowserOrDie() ("Your browser version looks incompatible with this TYPO3 version")

[Jigal van Hemert]

Hi,

On 08/01/2016 04:56, Michael Schams wrote:
> Unfortunately, this is not the only spot in TYPO3 where the
> browser/os/version
> is checked by accessing variable $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']. The next
> problem is that the RTE is not loaded, if the user-agent is "AWS
> CloudFront".
>
> If I add the following line to AdditionalConfiguration.php, the RTE
> comes up:
>
> $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] = $userAgent;
>
> However, overwriting *this* variable is a bad idea I suspect.
> Is there any chance to force the RTE to load, no matter which user-agent
> string the browser sent?

I think that overwriting that variable is indeed a bad idea. The RTE 
code needs browser information to handle the differences between 
browsers correctly.

If you disable the RTE globally then you could make it work behind a 
CDN. Perhaps in future versions a different RTE will be available which 
doesn't need client information inside the PHP code.

Your initial "workaround" for a different BE domain isn't too bad 
actually. You'll have way more FE requests than BE requests. Quite a few 
installations already have different domains for the BE to deal with 
load balancers, replication and many other challenges.

-- 
Jigal van Hemert
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