Re: checking for and enforcing https

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On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 09:45 -0500, Dan Joseph wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 9:39 AM, tedd <tedd.sperling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Sometimes I feel like a child here.
> >
> > Under what circumstances would one require that?
> >
> > If your script is in a https directory, isn't that secure? OR, is
> > this something else?
> >
> >
> 
> Well for instance.  We have a web server here with http and https pointing
> to the same place.  then we have an admin login for the site and we want to
> force people to go https even though they can do http to get there.  So when
> our users go to http://domain/admin/ it then redirects them to
> https://domain/admin/.

I do the same thing. For me I add an attribute to a page's pattern.
Usually one of the following:

    'https' => true,
    'https' => false,
    'https' => 'optional',

Then a small bit of code checks the attribute and ensures the request
meets the requirement.

Cheers,
Rob.
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