How to redirect http to https with Apache/SVN/SSL [SOLVED]
Daniel B. Thurman
dant at cdkkt.com
Fri May 15 14:05:28 UTC 2009
Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 19:57 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>
>>> I think you had it with the redirect causing an error in svn. The
>>> change to https needs to be done at the request end (AFAIK) so if svn
>>> can't/won't do that properly you are better off failing it with a
>>> useful error than having the traffic to you be unencrypted.
>>>
>>> My opinion only, the client is not working in a good way, break it
>>> rather than having it work in an actively BAD way.
>>>
>> Yes, that was what I thought, since there is no real way
>> to get a redirect with svn in the picture. I tried it in all
>> sorts of ways but was not able to. It would be nice if
>> there was a way to do a redirect cleanly, but alas, it's
>> not to be had.
>>
> ----
> not that this is going to help but you are trying to solve a client
> problem with a server solution. I don't see your problem as not being
> able to 'redirect cleanly' because in my mind, 'RedirectPermanent' is as
> clean as you can get but rather the client application apparently
> doesn't have enough http skills to deal with the Redirect information it
> has been given by the server. Probably some of that is about security
> because you really don't want an unsophisticated client to willy nilly
> accept redirection to another host/site/URL.
>
> Craig
Yes, it makes sense what you are saying.
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