AW: htaccess rewrite rule to https let my apps stop working

[Tiemo Hollmann TB]

Hi Mark,

I think the oldest version was build with LC 6.7. As far as I can see that
version supports https.
Is there any characteristic on the standalone, to identify the engine
version used?
I will give a redirect a try. Thanks for your ideas

Tiemo

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Betreff: Re: htaccess rewrite rule to https let my apps stop working

On 2017-08-18 13:58, Tiemo Hollmann TB via use-livecode wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I attached a certificate to our domain and started switching our 
> domain / web from http to https, because of the security alerts of 
> some browsers saying that our site isn't safe. So far so good. Our web 
> hoster recommended to put a rewrite rule into the htaccess to redirect 
> all http calls on https.
> So far so good. That works fine with all URLs in a browser.

I wonder if using a URL redirect, rather than rewrite might work better:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-temporary-and
-permanent-redirects-with-apache-and-nginx

I might be wrong here but I think rewriting just changes the path which
apache uses to determine what to return; a redirect causes a 'Redirection'
return value to the client so the client can refetch at the (redirected)
URL.

> I can't just change all URLs in all my LC programs from http to https, 
> because my customers have lots of old version of my programs out 
> there, which are not anymore maintained, which were created with any 
> very old LC version I don't know anymore, etc.

Unless the distributed versions built with old versions of LiveCode were
built with HTTPS support built-in then they are very unlikely to work with
either a redirect or rewrite.

Even if you do a redirect/rewrite on the server, the client has to be able
to handle the protocol which the server produces correctly.

Warmest Regards,

Mark.

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