[Pmwiki-users] https

[Ruediger Marwein]

Hi,

maybe OT, but a header redirect can also be described by

'//'.$HTTP_SERVER_VARS['HTTP_HOST'];
'//'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
//www.heise.de/

so the protocol doesn't matter anymore.

Gr33tZ
Ruediger

At 14:02 09.10.2003 -0600, you wrote:
>On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:58:10PM +0200, D. Deuter wrote:
> >
> > htaccess-passwords are transferred plaintext through Internet.
> > So I tried to access my Wiki-Page via https - but it seems as
> > if the http-header was hardcoded into pmWiki! Why doesn't
> > pmWiki just refer to other pages relatively (which would also
> > make it easier to access non-Wiki-pages in the site)??
>
>...because relative pages don't work if the page name is encoded into
>the URL path.  For example, given a url of
>     http://www.pmichaud.com/wiki/Main/HomePage
>
>The relative url to the PmWiki.PmWiki page would have to be
>"../PmWiki/PmWiki", which has the potential for all sorts of
>problems.
>
>However, the http: is not really "hardcoded" into PmWiki--you can always
>change it in local.php.  If you want to use https: instead of http:, just add
>
>    $ScriptUrl = 'https://'.$HTTP_SERVER_VARS['HTTP_HOST'];
>
>to local.php and all of the urls will use the https: address instead.
>
>Pm
>
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