redirect http to https

[Paul Howarth]

Andrey Andreev wrote:
> Matthew Miller wrote:
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>> On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 02:19:21PM +0300, Andrey Andreev wrote:
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>>> Obviously you cannot do that fully transparently to the user, as the 
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>> Sure you can! See other posts in this thread.
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> 
> Dang! So I'm wrong. Does anyone care to explain how it works?

The Apache httpd documentation is very good, and well worth a read. The 
section on URL rewriting can be found at:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html

Basically, what happens is that the server identifies a URL that needs 
redirecting elsewhere, and sends a "document moved to new location" HTTP 
response back to the browser, which contains the new URL. The browser then 
goes and gets the new URL.

Paul.