[albatross-users] How to get https protocol from al-a tags?

[Sheila King]

--On Monday, January 12, 2004 5:16 PM -0500 "Michael C. Neel"
<neel at mediapulse.com> wrote:

> In the app.py is the lines:
> 
>     def redirect_url(self, loc):
>         new_base = self.absolute_base_url()
>         return urlparse.urlunparse(('http',
> self.request.get_servername(),
>                                     new_base + loc, '', '', ''))
> 
> where it's going on.  You could change the http to https, but really
> IMHO albatross shouldn't be putting http(s) and servername into a url,
> prefixing with '/' at the beginning is a lot easier to move between
> sites.  I've also done sites with wildcards for dns and servername, and
> this would be a problem here too.  I don't know what the gain is for
> building the full url, so there maybe a reason to have it, but changing
> it to:
> 
>     def redirect_url(self, loc):
>         return self.absolute_base_url() + loc 
> 
> should solve your problem, but that's untested so you may need to test
> it a bit.  Also if you add a ?dummy=1 to the end of your href, I think
> albatross won't try to put in the full url - that or use expr instead as
> I don't think it will do the full url either.  I'm not 100% because I
> rarely use this tag.
> 
> Mike

Thanks, heaps, Mike. I quickly patched this change in, and it seems to be
working as desired. And yes, I do want to be able to switch between sites,
some of which have http and some of which have https, so flexibility is
important.

I sure would like to see this flexibility incorporated into the next
Albatross patch/version.

-- 
Sheila King
http://www.thinkspot.net/sheila/
http://www.k12groups.org


>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Sheila King [mailto:sheila at thinkspot.net] 
>> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 4:44 PM
>> To: albatross-users at object-craft.com.au
>> Subject: [albatross-users] How to get https protocol from al-a tags?
>> 
>> 
>> OK, I'm moving an albatross app I've been using under http 
>> for a while to
>> https. And I had hoped this would simply require moving the 
>> appropriate
>> files to the proper directory on my web server and adjusting 
>> a path or two.
>> 
>> However, it does appear that the al-a tags always produce 
>> links to http and
>> not to https even if the referring/current page is https.
>> 
>> How to fix this?
>> 
>> Is there an easy/quick thing I can do to my albatross files? 
>> I'm looking at
>> tags.py and it is not clear to me what code I could/should 
>> change there for
>> this effect?
>> 
>> I'm kinda bummed, cuz I already paid to have SSL set up on my 
>> web site, and
>> now it appears that it may not work with albatross.
>> :/
>> 
>> suggestions?
>> 
>> -- 
>> Sheila King
>> http://www.thinkspot.net/sheila/
>> http://www.k12groups.org