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Jinshu's avatar
Jinshu
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Dec 11, 2015

Is HTTP to HTTPS redirection Secure?

Hi All,   I have configured http to HTTPS redirection in some of the urls but is this secure? The VS blindly forwards all the communications from http to https which can cause man in midle attck r...
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Arie's avatar
Arie
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Dec 11, 2015

By the way, any particular reason you're using 

TCP::respond
instead of the more common 
HTTP::respond
?

Using the latter the rule would look like this (some optimization added by removing the variable):

when HTTP_REQUEST {
     HTTP::respond 301 Location "https://[HTTP::host][HTTP::uri]"
}