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JB_41040
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Feb 12, 2016

trying to redirect one https url to another

We have SSL cert for one domain1 but not for domain2. Our links are all relative and a link works just fine. However generates a SSL cert error as expected.   In order to get around that without ha...
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VernonWells
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Feb 12, 2016

The TLS negotiation occurs before any higher layer messages are exchanged. Even if you configured the web server to respond with a redirect, you would still get the cert warning. This is by design. Otherwise, a man-in-the-middle could inject a redirect (or really, any response) without the client knowing that it was not coming from the intended endpoint.