Accept Proxy Protocol V2 Traffic with Jetty in Spring Boot

Question

I am trying to configure Jetty 9.4.39.v20210325 in java Spring Boot 2.4.5 to accept proxy protocol V2 traffic. I want to do this programmatically in a spring configuration class. This is the method I wrote in the SharedConfiguration.java configuration class based on the Proxy Protocol section on the bottom of this page.

@Bean
  public ConfigurableServletWebServerFactory
      jettyCustomizer() {
    JettyServletWebServerFactory factory = new JettyServletWebServerFactory();
    factory.addServerCustomizers(server -> {
      ProxyConnectionFactory proxyConnectionFactory = new ProxyConnectionFactory();
      ServerConnector serverConnector = new ServerConnector(server, proxyConnectionFactory);
      server.addConnector(serverConnector);
    });
    return factory;
  }

The HTTP traffic is coming from an AWS EC2 network load balancer (NLB) and the balancer has proxy protocol V2 traffic enabled.

I am getting this response when I activate an endpoint in my service with the proxy protocol traffic:

Bad Message 400
reason: Illegal character CNTL=0x0

Does anyone know how I can get my service to accept this proxy protocol V2 traffic? I'm unsure if I am configuring Jetty correctly to do so.

Thanks!

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 17 '22 at 15:36

I have since figured out the problem with my configuration, I was adding a new server connector instead of changing the one already in the Jetty server.

Here is the correct approach:

@Bean
public ConfigurableServletWebServerFactory jettyCustomizer() {
  JettyServletWebServerFactory factory = new JettyServletWebServerFactory();
  factory.addServerCustomizers(server -> {
    ServerConnector serverConnector = (ServerConnector) server.getConnectors()[0];
    serverConnector.addFirstConnectionFactory(new ProxyConnectionFactory());
    });
  return factory;
}

Here I am getting the active server connector and mutating it to also contain a ProxyConnectionFactory which allows Jetty to accept the proxy protocol traffic.

Accept Proxy Protocol V2 Traffic with Jetty in Spring Boot

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