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3017609 - Reject untrusted forwarded certificate in Principal Propagation

Symptom

Principal propagation is configured between Business Technology Platform, Cloud Connector and a backend on premise system such as ABAP or S4Hana. Connection is either direct between Cloud Connector and ABAP/S4Hana or there is an additional intermediary such as a proxy, SAP Web Dispatcher or a Load balancer in between the Cloud Connector and the backend system.

A principal propagation Single sign-on (SSO) is failing with the following errors seen in the dev_icm trace of the backend ABAP or S4Hana on premise system:
HttpCertIsReverseProxyTrustworthy: no trust relationship to intermediary specified (see documentation for parameter "icm/HTTPS/trust_client_with_issuer" or "icm/trusted_reverse_proxy")
HttpIsReverseProxyTrustworthy: intermediary is NOT trusted
HttpModGetDefRules: intermediary is NOT trusted -> remove SSL header fields
Reject untrusted forwarded certificate

Additionally you might see:
(received via HTTPS with untrusted certificate) or (received via HTTP) or (received via HTTPS without certificate)


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Environment

  • SAP NetWeaver release independent;
  • SAP Business Technology Platform Connectivity;
  • SAP Cloud Connector(SCC) release independent.

Product

SAP BTP, Neo environment 1.0 ; SAP Connectivity service 2.0 ; SAP NetWeaver all versions ; SAP Web Dispatcher all versions ; cloud connector 1.0 for SAP HANA Cloud Platform

Keywords

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