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What is SSL redirect?
Once you have SSL installed, you need to redirect visitors who are still accessing your old HTTP site to your new HTTPS site. You can redirect visitors to your HTTPS domain automatically—even when they try to use your old HTTP domain.
Do redirects need SSL?
2 Answers. Yes. The redirection is an HTTP-level action which happens inside the SSL envelope. The client needs to establish an SSL connection to the original host before it ‘sees’ the redirect, then after completing the redirect it must establish another SSL connection to the target host.
Is redirecting HTTP to HTTPS safe?
HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol) and HTTPS (secure hypertext transfer protocol) are both transfer protocols. Here’s how it all boils down: HTTPS is secure, while HTTP is not. The websites that have made the move to redirect HTTP to HTTPS appear with a padlock on the browser bar before the URL.
Will http automatically redirect to https?
No, at the moment no major browsers would redirect to HTTPS automatically.
How to secure your website with SSL redirects?
To properly secure your website with SSL certificates, you might decide to incorporate redirects on your website, forcing all http URLs to redirect to secure https URLs, (i.e., http://mydomain.com redirects to https://mydomain.com ).
Can a https redirect be performed at a server level?
Performing an HTTPS redirect at server level is usually the preferred option. In this case, the server where the SSL certificate is installed receives the encrypted HTTP request and returns an encrypted HTTP redirect response according to some configuration rules, without contacting the application server or executing the application code.
Why is my SSL redirect throwing an error?
It would throw an error unless the certificate is valid for “domain.com” which is most cases it is not. Even if you had a wildcard certificate for “*.domain.com”, it would not prevent you from getting a warning because this specifies any subdomain is valid, but does not cover just the domain by itself.
What happens when a redirect is sent to a server?
At that point, the client will send the HTTP request to the server, and the server will finally respond with the HTTP response containing the redirect. A redirect is nothing more than an HTTP response with a 301 (sometimes 302 or 307) status code. Once again, the order is: The client and the server agree to exchange the SSL certificate information.