Issue in integrating starter with IMS LTI Tool Consumer emulator about lti-starter HOT 9 OPEN

Good to know that you solved the ims-lti https issue.

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Hello apurvaasf,

I saw that you used HTTPS. Please use HTTP instead of HTTPS

The correct firebase function url is http://us-central1-lti-starter-mine.cloudfunctions.net/ltiLogin

Please see a screenshot in the attached file.

Kind regards

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Hi!
Thanks. :D

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Without https, IMSLTI integration does not work. According to documentation as a best practice, in production situations, the external services should be accessed using secure http (i.e., https) to avoid man-in-the-middle and other security attacks. Not using 'https' renders a blank page.
Integration attempt with https:

Integration attempt with http:

Possible solution to this?

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if your site uses HTTP (like ltiapps.net), the firebase function url must use HTTP

If your site uses HTTPS, the firebase function url must use HTTPS

Please check and compare POST parameters between moodle.net and ltiapps.net that post to the firebase function.

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Here are the POST parameters in both cases:
Moodle:

ltiapps: (With https. Works fine with 'http')

External tools configuration in moodle:

And the database:

I don't see why this is not rendering. Please let me know if you can tell why.

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Update:
The issue that I have been facing.
The solution to it.
The alternate solution to it.
Yet the site is not being rendered when using 'https' but is being rendered when using 'http'. Anything that I could try next to fix this?

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My integration with Canvas was not working until I set request.connection.encrypted = true before passing the request object to the Provider.

I found the solution here: omsmith/ims-lti#69

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