[pmwiki-users] "Bug" when installing to a secure server?

christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com
Sat Dec 23 15:34:39 CST 2006


On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, HaganFox wrote:

>> On my secure installation the result was 'on', and on a public I just got
>> what I think is an empty string, i.e. ''.
>
> That's good feedback.  Just to be sure I understand, the public server 
> is also HTTPS, correct?

No, I was being imprecise. The "public" server was 'http:'. sorry

/C

> Assuming so, I suspect
>
> if (@$_SERVER['HTTPS'] == 'on'
> || @$_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'] == '443') { # ... }
>
> would work on both of those servers.   I think it would virtually never detect
> HTTPS in error, except if a server is using port 443 and not HTTPS.  I don't
> think that's likely to happen, and even if it does the wiki administrator can
> always set $ScriptUrl explicitly.

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