[Debian-l10n-devel] SSL support for the services on i18n.debian.net

[Nicolas François]

On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 07:18:25PM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Nicolas François
> <nicolas.francois at centraliens.net> wrote:
> > Hello Martijn,
> >
> > DDTSS has some hardcoded links using HTTP. Could you check if it's
> > possible to dynamically use HTTP or HTTPS depending on the user requests?
> 
> I'm sure it's possible, but I'm not sure how. I use $ENV{HTTP_HOST}
> and $ENV{SCRIPT_NAME} to construct the URLs but how do I tell if the
> user is coming through HTTPS rather than HTTP?

I'm really not used to CGI, so all this could be crap.

Reading /usr/share/perl/5.8.8/CGI.pm, I had these ideas:
 * using $self->url ()
 * using $self->protocol ()

 * SERVER_PORT could help. But it looks more like a hack.

Otherwise, it should be possible to avoid specifying the base URL, and
always build href links relatively to the root.

Cheers,
-- 
Nekral