Forum being served by both http and https redirects haphazardly between the two.

[buro9]

My forum is at:
http://www.bowlie.com/forum/

I also allow users to access an SSL version at:
https://www.bowlie.com/forum/

I do this to allow them to access the forum on public computers (phone boxes, internet cafés, etc) knowing that it won't cache copies of what they see, and also to sidestep workplace firewall filters which cannot gain access to SSL protected pages (it's part of the spec, to defend against man in the middle attacks).

This is very popular with a few members, who use it exclusively.

I've also got a hack within functions.php to ensure that any absolute URL's to either the http:// or https:// are correct for the person viewing it.

So if you view on https:// every reference to the http://www.bowlie.com/forum path is also changed to https://. This has to be done to make sure that attachments, etc are also secured.

Likewise I do the opposite to make sure those on http:// never receive https:// items in their pages... to prevent them from getting warnings about it.

Anyway... one of my URL's might be:
https://www.bowlie.com/forum/help/23...last-post.html

But when clicked... even though that is a httpS:// URL, it ends up here:
http://www.bowlie.com/forum/help/234...tml#post920617

Which means people are being kicked off the SSL version.

How can I stop it from doing that when it performs the redirect?

Can you add a check to your code to ensure you take into account the two following scenarios:
1) port 443 SSL URL's
2) non-port 80 URL's

As it stands... I'm now having to deliberate whether SEO is worth losing existing members for, as they require the SSL version to work browse and browse in privacy.

[Juan Muriente]

Thank-you for reporting this issue. We've done the required changes to support https browsing without issues - These updates will be included in the next vBSEO version, 2.3.0, due later today.

[buro9]

These updates will be included in the next vBSEO version, 2.3.0, due later today.

Such a tease... where is it huh?

[buro9]

The bug is still there in 2.3.0

Where do you get the absolute URL from? Do you not use the vboptions['bburl'] value?

Is there some variable I can set during init.php to adjust your absolute URL to use the correct protocol?

[Juan Muriente]

This issue should be corrected after the recent fixes made to the code. My apologies, v.2.3.1 will be released shortly.

[Juan Muriente]

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