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Getting "Error 502 Bad Gateway" on the BlackBerry smartphone while browsing HTTPS websites.

Article ID: KB27537

Type: Support Content

Last Modified: 02-10-2012

 

Product(s) Affected:

  • BlackBerry Enterprise Server
  • BlackBerry 7 OS and earlier
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  • BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 SP3 MR3
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In some environments the BlackBerry users may receive "Error 502 Bad Gateway" while browsing HTTPS websites.

The following event can be found in the MDAT log file on the BlackBerry Enterprise Server.

<2010-12-15 09:21:11.647 GMT>:[1326]:<MDS-CS_SERVER01_MDS-CS_1>:<DEBUG>:<LAYER = IPPP, HANDLER = HTTP, EVENT = SentToTranscoder, DEVICEPIN = 12A34B56C, USERID = u3, CONNECTIONID = 1125279124, DESTINATION = https://www.example.com/ , HTTPTRANSMISSION = HTTP/1.0 502 Proxy Error ( The Uniform Resource Locator (URL) does not use a recognized protocol. Either the protocol is not supported or the request was not typed correctly. Confirm that a valid protocol is in use (for example, HTTP for a Web request). )>
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By default, the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service doesn’t use absolute URI while sending HTTPS requests. Some Proxy server may reject this type requests.
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1) Navigate to the folder below

 C:\Program Files\Research In Motion\BlackBerry Enterprise Server\MDS\Servers\instance\config

2) Open rimpublic.property file and add the following line

application.handler.https.absolutedUrl=true

3) Restart the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service.

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