redirect http to https

[Andrey Andreev]

Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 02:19:21PM +0300, Andrey Andreev wrote:
> 
>>Obviously you cannot do that fully transparently to the user, as the 
> 
> 
> Sure you can! See other posts in this thread.

Dang! So I'm wrong. Does anyone care to explain how it works?

> 
> 
>>client needs to initiate the new TCP connection to the https code. You 
>>need to instruct the browser to do so, and the browser understands HTML. 
>>Thus:
>>Put this in the index.html or whatever your server serves
>>	<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0;url=http://google.com" />
>>fix the 0 to the number of seconds to wait before the redirect fires, 
>>and the url to the url you want.
> 
> 
> Oh, please don't do this. It's really annoying for visitors, because it
> breaks the "back" button.
> 

good point...


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Andrey Andreev
University of Helsinki
Dept. of Computer Science