switching http requests to https

Hi.

I need to be able to transparently (to the user) switch user's http requests
to https. Meaning when the user opens a browser and types
"http://server/resourse" I need to recognize that the request came in as
http and need to instruct the browser to resend it as
"https://server/resourse". Ideally I'd like to accomplish that via some
mod_perl script, but if there is a configuration directive, that would work
too.
I'd appreciate any help regarding how to accomplish this.

thanks a lot,
Sasha Novozhilov
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Re: switching http requests to https

novozhilov_sasha@emc.com wrote:

> I need to be able to transparently (to the user) switch user's http requests
> to https. Meaning when the user opens a browser and types
> "http://server/resourse" I need to recognize that the request came in as
> http and need to instruct the browser to resend it as
> "https://server/resourse".

Ah, that's simple, just set the Location header, this is what is known
as an external redirect and it works nicely for doing what you want:
$r->cgi_header_out("Location", "https://yaddayadda")

HTH

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Re: switching http requests to https

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There is a very simple approach, using the rewrite directive.
(forwarding it a other https server or virtualhost of yours.

I'm actively using:
redirect / https://www..com/

You can put in the-main-conf or in a VirtualHost,

Example:
(I don't use http, only https, so I've made a VH for http to forward to https)

:80>
SSLEngine Off
port 80
redirect / https://www..com/
ServerName www..com
ServerAdmin @.com
ErrorLog logs/dummy-www..com-error_log
CustomLog logs/dummy-www..com-access_log common





>Hi.
>
>I need to be able to transparently (to the user) switch user's http requests
>to https. Meaning when the user opens a browser and types
>"http://server/resourse" I need to recognize that the request came in as
>http and need to instruct the browser to resend it as
>"https://server/resourse". Ideally I'd like to accomplish that via some
>mod_perl script, but if there is a configuration directive, that would work
>too.
>I'd appreciate any help regarding how to accomplish this.
>
>thanks a lot,
>Sasha Novozhilov
>___________________________________________________________ ___________
>Apache Interface to OpenSSL (mod_ssl) www.modssl.org
>User Support Mailing List modssl-users@modssl.org
>Automated List Manager majordomo@modssl.org





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