suggestion for better https support

_ck_
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11 years, 1 month ago
Not all servers set HTTPS like you are trying to detect in 1.2 (and earlier) of super cache.

ie. this is not good enough
```
if ( isset( $_SERVER[ 'HTTPS' ] ) )
$protocol = ( 'on' == strtolower( $_SERVER[ 'HTTPS' ] ) ) ? 'https://' : 'http://';
else
$protocol = 'http://';
```
this is more bullet-proof
```
if ((!empty($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && $_SERVER['HTTPS']!== 'off')
|| (!empty($_SERVER['SERVER_PORT']) && $_SERVER['SERVER_PORT']==443)) {
$protocol = 'https://';
} else {
$protocol = 'http://';
}
```
to explain, some setups use port 443 without enabling the HTTPS environment and some actually set HTTPS to ‘1’ and not ‘on’

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/

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Thread Starter _ck_
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11 years, 1 month ago

Actually now that I think about it, the whole approach is bad.

Because a cached page for https and a cached page for http will have completely different links on the page.

If you use the same http cached page for https, non-relative links will be broken and take the user out of https when they follow (and visa versa)

You need to store (https) cached pages with the protocol appended and adjust htaccess as well for that situation.
Thread Starter _ck_
(@_ck_)

11 years, 1 month ago
Okay I see where index-https was added in 1.2

Doesn’t really address the original problem of true https detection but I guess nginx users can work around the environment problem.

Is there a better solution than this for nginx

inside http {
```
map $scheme $index {
    default  index;
    https    index-https;
}
```
then later in your location {
```
try_files /wp-content/cache/supercache/$host/$uri/$index.html
```
Note the $ on index to make it a string set by the map early on

That’s be best I can come up with because you should not use if statements in nginx when possible to avoid it.
Thread Starter _ck_
(@_ck_)

11 years, 1 month ago
A word of warning to those with proxies ahead of apache like nginx.

This will NOT work if you artificially set the HTTPS flag
```
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
```
Because apache hasn’t determined it on it’s own, the HTTPS flag is NOT equal to the environmental HTTPS variable, even though PHP after apache will see them as equal.

What you have to do instead is this
```
RewriteCond %{ENV:HTTPS} on
```
This is not the fault of wp-super-cache, just something to be aware of to save you time.
If you do it incorrectly, you will see Apache serving the index.html file to https connections instead of index-https.html

I do suggest that super-cache put the HTTPS rewrite rule first in it’s .htacess blocks though, kind of a waste to process all those other rules for each page load.

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