Weblogic setting wrong protocol in WSDL (Load Balancer terminating SSL)

In most of the architectures, the SSL is terminated at the hardware load balancer for performance reasons and allows the internal traffic to use HTTP for communication.

Client ---[HTTPS] --> Hardware LB (SSL termination) --- [HTTP] --> WLS (WebService)

The client will typically fetch the WSDL for the webservice hosted on WLS and use the endpoint available in the WSDL for invoking the webservice. So the calls for fetching the WSDL would happen as under:

Client (https://lbhost:lbhttpsport/URI?wsdl)  --- > Hardware LB (http://wlshost:wlshttpport?wsdl) --- WLS (set the endpoint in wsdl as frontendhost:frontendhttpport if provided or will return http://lbhost:lbhttpsport/URI)

Please note that the endpoint in the WSDL has the http protcol whereas the client is only used to call the LB on https protocol. The reason why WLS sets the protocol as http is because the request was recieved on http and there is no way for WLS to identify if the actual request was made on https.

To solve the issue, you need to set an extra header variable "WL-Proxy-SSL: true" at the load balancer so that WLS identifies the request is called on https. Also, you need to set the flag Weblogic-Proxy-Plugin Enabled at the WLS managed server.