I have a perplexing SSL issue that I can't seem to resolve.

When someone browses to my app, I have code that redirects http: to
https:. I did this by replacing the 403;4 "secure channel required"
page with a custom page that redirects to https:. The problem is that
this works intermittently. Sometimes it redirects to https: OK and
sometimes users are getting "Under Construction" page. There is
absolutely no rhyme or reason as to when it will redirect and when it
will not. I have also tried setting up a forwarding on my domain
manager to forward everyting to https: but that doesn't seem to help
either.

Has anyone seen this behavior before, and is there something that can
be done to fix it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
~ asleep

Re: Redirect from http: to https: by asleepatdesk

asleepatdesk
Thu Mar 13 12:24:31 CDT 2008

On Mar 13, 10:18=A0am, asleepatdesk <st...@scoleman.net> wrote:
> I have a perplexing SSL issue that I can't seem to resolve.
>
> When someone browses to my app, I have code that redirects http: to
> https:. =A0I did this by replacing the 403;4 "secure channel required"
> page with a custom page that redirects to https:. =A0The problem is that
> this works intermittently. =A0Sometimes it redirects to https: OK and
> sometimes users are getting "Under Construction" page. =A0There is
> absolutely no rhyme or reason as to when it will redirect and when it
> will not. =A0I have also tried setting up a forwarding on my domain
> manager to forward everyting to https: but that doesn't seem to help
> either.
>
> Has anyone seen this behavior before, and is there something that can
> be done to fix it?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> ~ asleep

One more thing to note: before creating the replacement 403;4 redirect
script, I noticed that despite requiring SSL connection in IIS, the
"403;4 page would not display everytime. It seems that is the
intermittent part, sometimes the 403;4 page would show and sometimes
the Unser Construction would show.

Thanks.

Re: Redirect from http: to https: by David

David
Fri Mar 14 00:04:12 CDT 2008

On Mar 13, 10:24=A0am, asleepatdesk <st...@scoleman.net> wrote:
> On Mar 13, 10:18=A0am, asleepatdesk <st...@scoleman.net> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > I have a perplexing SSL issue that I can't seem to resolve.
>
> > When someone browses to my app, I have code that redirects http: to
> > https:. =A0I did this by replacing the 403;4 "secure channel required"
> > page with a custom page that redirects to https:. =A0The problem is that=

> > this works intermittently. =A0Sometimes it redirects to https: OK and
> > sometimes users are getting "Under Construction" page. =A0There is
> > absolutely no rhyme or reason as to when it will redirect and when it
> > will not. =A0I have also tried setting up a forwarding on my domain
> > manager to forward everyting to https: but that doesn't seem to help
> > either.
>
> > Has anyone seen this behavior before, and is there something that can
> > be done to fix it?
>
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> > ~ asleep
>
> One more thing to note: before creating the replacement 403;4 redirect
> script, I noticed that despite requiring SSL connection in IIS, the
> "403;4 page would not display everytime. =A0It seems that is the
> intermittent part, sometimes the 403;4 page would show and sometimes
> the Unser Construction would show.
>
> Thanks.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -


Check your IIS web logs and make sure that the requests which get the
"Under Construction" page are actually handled by your web server. If
they are not handled by your IIS server which has the HTTP->HTTPS
redirection, that would explain the intermittent behavior. At that
point, you will have to figure out your intermittent network routing
problem, which has nothing to do with IIS nor SSL.


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