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How to disable Tracking Logo in Community Edition 201901 GA (Docker)

r_aurelian — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 16:14:15 GMT

Hello!I have installed Alfresco Community Edition 201901 GA (via Docker) and are serving it over SSL using HAproxy reverse proxy. However, my page does not show as secure - the browser complains I have insecure content on my page. The culprit is "http://www.alfresco.com/assets/images/logos/community

Re: How to disable Tracking Logo in Community Edition 201901 GA (Docker)

r_aurelian — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 11:17:47 GMT

Again, I do not need it to be necessarily disabled - just to make it request https. If that is not possible, then yes, it would be OK to disable it to make sure all of the content served by the reverse proxy is secured (and this is the only insecure link).

Any ideas?

Re: How to disable Tracking Logo in Community Edition 201901 GA (Docker)

douglascrp — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 12:59:21 GMT

I know about this old blog post on the topic Removing the Tracking Image from Alfresco

But I don't know if it still aplies for the version you are using.

If not, I think the only thing you need to know is to adapt it.

Re: How to disable Tracking Logo in Community Edition 201901 GA (Docker)

r_aurelian — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 08:58:14 GMT

Thanks Douglas, but I have seen that blog post. However, it`s very old and it references another link (www.alfresco.com/assets/images/logos/community-4.0-share.png) instead of what I am seeing. Also, on the GitHub page of the Tracking Removal project, it is mentioned that it has only been tested with these versions: Alfresco 4.2b/4.2c as well as 5.0/5.1 community. Remember that this was also before Docker.

Is there really no file that I can modify to at least get the tracking image to be requested via HTTPS and not HTTP?

Re: How to disable Tracking Logo in Community Edition 201901 GA (Docker)

douglascrp — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 12:16:07 GMT

Hello.

Well, you came to the conclusion I mentioned... you will have to use that blog post as an idea, and adapt it to the new version. I really believe you just have to follow the described steps, of course, using the source code for your current version, and check what has been changed.

And about using Docker or not, you will have to create an extension project anyway, using JAR or AMP as the result, and then create your custom image containing the JAR/AMP applied into it.

I wish I had the time to try it out for you, but right now, I have too much on my lap already.

I hope someone else can help you with this.

Re: How to disable Tracking Logo in Community Edition 201901 GA (Docker)

r_aurelian — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 11:10:59 GMT

I think that in the end this is beyond my understanding.

In the end, I opened a bug here: [ALF-22090] Tracking Logo in Community Edition 201901 GA (Docker) is hard-coded to HTTP - Alfresco JIRA

Hopefully this will be fixed in a future version.

Re: How to disable Tracking Logo in Community Edition 201901 GA (Docker)

r_aurelian — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 09:29:51 GMT

Chrome has announced that it will start blocking mixed content by default, so this issue has just got much more serious.

I really hope that something can be done about this hard-coded HTTP link in the next GA version of Alfresco Community. Does anyone has any new about this?

Re: How to disable Tracking Logo in Community Edition 201901 GA (Docker)

ykanke — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 06:00:22 GMT

I have this problem too

Re: How to disable Tracking Logo in Community Edition 201901 GA (Docker)

jbrasil — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 19:13:30 GMT

Hi r_aurelian,
I have this problem too
Got the solution?
Thanks a lot!
Zé Brasil

Re: How to disable Tracking Logo in Community Edition 201901 GA (Docker)

joseantonionava — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 16:59:36 GMT

Hello...

www.alfresco.com/assets/images/logos/community-5.2-share.png is a white pixel that Alfresco uses to track Community installations. More info here... https://hub.alfresco.com/t5/alfresco-content-services-hub/community-edition-usage-tracking/ba-p/290047

It gives problems with most browsers since they consider it insecure.

Here a way to solve the problem (a little dirty but it works) on CE 201901GA:

In share.war/WEB-INF/classes/org/alfresco/web/scripts/MessagesWebScript.class, remove the url by editing Constant_Utf8 in the class.

Good luck.

Re: How to disable Tracking Logo in Community Edition 201901 GA (Docker)

jbrasil — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 20:39:13 GMT

Re: How to disable Tracking Logo in Community Edition 201901 GA (Docker)

jbrasil — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 20:41:17 GMT

Hello joseantonionava,
Would you have the MessagesWebScript.class file with this change?
Thanks a lot!
Zé Brasil

Re: How to disable Tracking Logo in Community Edition 201901 GA (Docker)

jbrasil — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 20:42:40 GMT

Re: How to disable Tracking Logo in Community Edition 201901 GA (Docker)

joseantonionava — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 08:43:01 GMT

Hello jbrasil... sure...

Here you are...

https://mega.nz/#!H4N1QYIB!yajjCVMUAXFZm-sU0fUsJ1OLFmbCWElSJfsoyrWU0_8

First backup the original file... and tell me if it works for you.

Regards.

Re: How to disable Tracking Logo in Community Edition 201901 GA (Docker)

jbrasil — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 12:47:32 GMT

Hi joseantonionava,
It worked.
Thanks a lot for the help.
With best regards,
Zé Brasil

Re: How to disable Tracking Logo in Community Edition 201901 GA (Docker)

r_aurelian — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 12:47:23 GMT

Thank you joseantonionava,

The file worked fine. Hopefully this issue will be actually fixed for good in a future version.

Re: How to disable Tracking Logo in Community Edition 201901 GA (Docker)

zerros — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 08:28:05 GMT

Hello,

How apply this patch in a docker environment please ? I have the same issue with mixed content due to logo.

Thanks.

Re: How to disable Tracking Logo in Community Edition 201901 GA (Docker)

michaelzietlow — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 21:09:51 GMT

I can confirm the 5.2 tracking logo GET, is STILL PRESENT in Community7.0 MessagesWebScript.class

community7.0# strings /var/opt/alfresco/tomcat/webapps/share/WEB-INF/classes/org/alfresco/web/scripts/MessagesWebScript.class| grep png

j://www.alfresco.com/assets/images/logos/community-5.2-share.png" alt="*" style="display:none"/>'}, 100);

As written this breaks my HAPROXY to NGINX over SSL deployment without running the modified class file listed above.

Even though I'm running https:// with Nginx, tomcat doesn't know this.

Maybe there is some global properties switch that instructs tomcat to only offer https:// responses?

Otherwise reverse Proxy users may hav to set up ssl certificates on Tomcat and double encrypt. This way I believe Tomcat will tell all its clients to use https://