Ralph Goers wrote:
Sylvain Wallez wrote:
Ok, that's it on *that* subject (I hope), let's get into the
technical discussion:
Both, the JSR 168 and WSRP require the functionality to switch from
http to https and back. Switching the protocol is only possible with
absolute urls (for the switch itself). That's the reason why the
LinkService now creates absolute urls.
Can you elaborate on this protocol switch? What is it about? Any
pointers?
Very often you want to display a few pages, but not all, of your
website using SSL. So you use http for most of the website but use
https for the few pages that need it. That necessitates using the
absolute path since the switch from http to https isn't relative to
anything.
I'm a total newbie on this matter, so that may be dumb questions. I
don't see how absolutizing links allows this: the result of
absolutization is that all links use the protocol that was used by the
current request, i.e. if it's http than all links will use http and if
it's https then all links will use https.
It seems to me that the protocol to be used depends on the page that is
to be displayed rather than where you come from to that page, no?
Absolutization means that once you enter the site using a particular
protocol, you always use that one. Or did I missed something?
Sylvain
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