As long as you don't have a proxy between your users and the server
something with request.env could be used

def login():
    if request.env.port != 443:
       redirect('https://'+request.env.http_host +'/app/default/logon')

-wes

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Jay <j...@unclehenrys.com> wrote:
>  I am new to web2py and Apache w/mod_ssl and I have been searching
> for
>  a solution related to this topic but I must be missing a basic
>  understanding of the necessary pieces in order to accomplish this.
>
>  Our web2py apache setup seems to be fine.  I can access our app's
>  pages using both http and https if I manually add the 's' to the url.
>
>  What we are trying to do is smoothly transition from one controller/
>  function using http to another using https.
>  Example, a user arrives at http://init/default/index and then the
> user
>  selects ‘Login’ and they are sent to https:/init/default/login.  We
>  need some controller functions to use http and some https.  Can this
>  be done from within the controller/function?  If not, what is the
>  ‘best practice’ approach to accomplishing this?
>
>  - Jay
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