Hi there,

I just created a new extension. http://www.typolight.org/wiki/extensions:sslredirect

Now your pages (frontend-login, contact-form, ...) can be forced to use a secure connection.

Eric,

Great extension! I wonder if it would be more seamless to integrate this on the Page structure level. There would be a checkbox where you determine whether a page requires SSL or not. I do see the benefits of being able to add it to Page layouts, though. Maybe Leo has some thoughts about integrating this into the core on the Page structure level.

Hi Ben,

I agree totally with your and I suggested this already as a new feature for TL. This extension is more or less a workaround until leo integrates this into the page-options

Hi guys,

I like the idea a lot, however, I do not like the fact that it cannot be used with SSL proxies. This feature has been requested before and I think that this was the reason why it has not been implemented.

Regards
Leo

Hi Leo,

in this case the admin has to specify the proxy-domain somewhere in the TL configuration. If set the redirection takes the user to the proxy-server-address.

Hello flat,

Nice work on the module. Extremely simple and flexible. It is coming in handy!

Best,

Fred

Hi again, flat.

Have you given any thought to making this module take a different approach of designating certain pages as ssl-enabled versus once accessed, always on? Servers experience up to 30% increase in CPU load due to SSL process overhead.

Your thoughts?

Fred

The best way seems to be to create a new page-type ("secured-page" or something like that). But this requires to modify the core of TL. The front-controller needs to know what to do if the page type is "secured" ...
Or one could add a flag into the regular page ("Force secure connection for this page"). But this requires some core modifications, too.

Some hooks would be nice "preExecute" or "onPageTypeProcess"

SSL does indeed produce overhead. But I think first security and after that performance

FlatPredator,

Just wondering if this module will make it's way into the extension repository. It is very useful and I'd hate to see it "go away" once the old wiki / repository is removed at the end of the year.

Hi,

I just talked to Andreas Schempp to create an extension, that adds the missing feature to redirect to http to the already existing extension [SSLRedirect]. Andreas did the job in a few hours!

This new extension is called [Redirect] and can be found in the repository. Finaly you can use it to redirect to https and to http, just include the appropriate module.

In addition there are two more redirect-types possible.

Regards

This is very cool news Stephan thanks for sharing, off to downloading and kudos to Andreas !

Here's the link to the module: http://www.typolight.org/extension-list/…ect.10000009.en.html

This is good news that you can now remove SSL encryption, as this was a problem with the previous setup. Once you were on a particular page of a site using SSL, there was not a good solution to go back to an unsecure connection ... until now!

Thanks for your work on this, Andreas.

Btw, it took me about 45 minutes to do everything... Creating the module was less than 5 minutes...

Be aware that the new module does no longer take care of the localconfig.php settings, there is a new field in the front end module to add a redirect url.