How to redirect http to https with Apache/SVN/SSL [SOLVED]

[Daniel B. Thurman]

Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 19:57 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>   
>>> I think you had it with the redirect causing an error in svn. The 
>>> change to https needs to be done at the request end (AFAIK) so if svn 
>>> can't/won't do that properly you are better off failing it with a 
>>> useful error than having the traffic to you be unencrypted.
>>>
>>> My opinion only, the client is not working in a good way, break it 
>>> rather than having it work in an actively BAD way.
>>>       
>> Yes, that was what I thought, since there is no real way
>> to get a redirect with svn in the picture.  I tried it in all
>> sorts of ways but was not able to.  It would be nice if
>> there was a way to do a redirect cleanly, but alas, it's
>> not to be had.
>>     
> ----
> not that this is going to help but you are trying to solve a client
> problem with a server solution. I don't see your problem as not being
> able to 'redirect cleanly' because in my mind, 'RedirectPermanent' is as
> clean as you can get but rather the client application apparently
> doesn't have enough http skills to deal with the Redirect information it
> has been given by the server. Probably some of that is about security
> because you really don't want an unsophisticated client to willy nilly
> accept redirection to another host/site/URL.
>
> Craig
Yes, it makes sense what you are saying.