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Re^3: PSGI, Plack et.al.

by McA (Priest)
on Oct 24, 2012 at 20:28 UTC ( [id://1000709]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^2: PSGI, Plack et.al.
in thread PSGI, Plack et.al.

Hi,

but you should not forget that there are circumstances where you want to know whether requests came via https or http. Just two examples:

  • You want to generate absolute URL in the response to reflect the currently used protocol.
  • You want to set the secure attribute on cookies when you know that the response is sent via https.

Best regards
McA

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Re^4: PSGI, Plack et.al.
by Corion (Patriarch) on Oct 24, 2012 at 20:36 UTC

    A common? trick to avoid the protocol is a schemaless URL:

    # Instead of
https://example.com/foo/bar
# use
//example.com/foo/bar

    [download]

    This will use the same protocol as the origin.

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Re^4: PSGI, Plack et.al.
by afoken (Chancellor) on Oct 25, 2012 at 05:28 UTC
    there are circumstances where you want to know whether requests came via https or http

    At least the Apache webserver sets up several CGI environment variables, the most obvious one is HTTPS set to on. It also adds a ton of environment variables starting with SSL_ describing many aspects of the SSL connection. The CGI 1.1 RFC 3875 leaves HTTPS unspecified, but allows the Apache behaviour.

    Alexander

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Re^4: PSGI, Plack et.al.
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 25, 2012 at 02:16 UTC
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