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Redirecting https
01-08-2017 12:05 PM
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I am currently redirecting from my web space vodden.plus.com to my wordpress.com site using:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://petervodden.wordpress.com" />
I (and others of my friends and acquaintances) have noticed that some people have started to use https:// as a default when linking (why, I don't know, seems daft to me - why would you request a simple personal website encrypted? - but it is happening..).
So requesting https://www.vodden.plus.com just responds with a "Privacy Error" in the browser - I assume because because the redirect mechanism cannot pass a certificate.
Should I redirect to https://petervodden.wordpress.com - will that work?
Or, if I switch to a CNAME enabled redirection, will the DNS server then pass a certificate to https://petervodden.wordpress.com?
If not, is there another way around this problem?
Any assistance gratefully received.....
Re: Redirecting https
01-08-2017 1:00 PM
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Do you get a similar error if you do the redirect via JScript, e.g.
<script language=JavaScript type=text/javascript>
window.location = https://petervodden.wordpress.com
</script>
Re: Redirecting https
01-08-2017 7:03 PM
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Yes. I have updated the index.html page to include:
<script language=JavaScript type=text/javascript>
window.location = "https://petervodden.wordpress.com";
</script>
That makes no difference.
If the problem is SSL, then I wouldn't expect the mechanism (refresh, script, CNAME etc.) to make a difference. If the Plusnet server has no certificate for https://www.vodden.plus.com, the it can't negotiate with the server at Wordpress. I'm not an SSL expert, but I have read that a lot of server administrations wrongly assume that redirecting https to another https doesn't need a certificate - but it does.
Re: Redirecting https
01-08-2017 7:38 PM
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Bob Pullen
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Re: Redirecting https
01-08-2017 8:00 PM
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Sorry, Bob, I am not quite sure I understand.
Do you mean use a CNAME record to send any incoming request for my vodden.plus.com domain to
homepages.plus.net/vodden which then will handle any redirection expressed in code in my index.html page?
Re: Redirecting https
01-08-2017 8:07 PM - edited 01-08-2017 9:42 PM
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Ah, may have misinterpreted the ask. I wonder if an htaccess directive to rewrite https://www.vodden.plus.com to https://homepages.plus.net/vodden would work?
Edit: on second thoughts it wouldn't as it would fundamentally break what SSL is there to do in the first place. I don't see a solution to this. Either those linking need to use https://homepages.plus.net/vodden, or visitors will have to put up with the error.
Bob Pullen
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Re: Redirecting https
02-08-2017 10:38 AM
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Yep I agree. There is no solution.
I am guilty of using a method for temporary redirection in a manner for which it was not designed.
What I plan to do is update the DNS settings. It means I will no longer be able to serve up resources from my Plusnet webspace - but at least I can still utilise my FTP service for file storage. (I think - is that correct?)
Re: Redirecting https
02-08-2017 10:43 AM
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You can use the homepages to store files up to the allowance there, that shouldn't be an issue -Chris
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