Redirect Loop?

[Alan Moseley]

Please can someone put me out of my misery. I am used a shared hosting
provider to host my asp website. I need certain pages of my site to be
viewed over SSL. I have therefore inserted the following code into the
Page_Load event of a page that needs to be viewed over SSL:-

Dim strURL As String = ""
If Not Request.IsSecureConnection Then
strURL = Request.Url.AbsoluteUri.Replace("http://", "https://")
Response.Redirect(strURL, True)
End If

On IE the page never loads, and on Firefox I get a message stating that the
redirection limit has been exceeded.

Have I inadvertently caused a loop, and if so, why? Many thanks in advance.
--
Alan Moseley IT Consultancy
http://www.amitc.co.uk

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[Dooza]

Alan Moseley wrote:
> Please can someone put me out of my misery. I am used a shared hosting
> provider to host my asp website. I need certain pages of my site to be
> viewed over SSL. I have therefore inserted the following code into the
> Page_Load event of a page that needs to be viewed over SSL:-
>
> Dim strURL As String = ""
> If Not Request.IsSecureConnection Then
> strURL = Request.Url.AbsoluteUri.Replace("http://", "https://")
> Response.Redirect(strURL, True)
> End If
>
> On IE the page never loads, and on Firefox I get a message stating that the
> redirection limit has been exceeded.
>
> Have I inadvertently caused a loop, and if so, why? Many thanks in advance.

I use this:

<%
If Request.ServerVariables("HTTPS") = "off" Then
Response.Redirect "https://" & Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_HOST") &
Request.ServerVariables("URL") & "?" &
Request.ServerVariables("QUERY_STRING")
End If
%>

Dooza

[Evertjan.]

Dooza wrote on 19 okt 2009 in microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:

> Alan Moseley wrote:
>> Please can someone put me out of my misery. I am used a shared
>> hosting provider to host my asp website. I need certain pages of my
>> site to be viewed over SSL. I have therefore inserted the following
>> code into the Page_Load event of a page that needs to be viewed over
>> SSL:-
>>
>> Dim strURL As String = ""

"As" is not ASP vbscript!

>> If Not Request.IsSecureConnection Then

Request.IsSecureConnection is not classic ASP, I think.

>> strURL = Request.Url.AbsoluteUri.Replace("http://", "https://")

This some kind of Javascriptlike VBscript, perhaps asp.net?

calssic ASP-vbscript:

strURL = Replace(strURL,"http://", "https://")

>> Response.Redirect(strURL, True)

Response.Redirect has only one parameter.
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms524309.aspx>

And even if it had two,
using () around them would result in an error,
as ASP statements [and functions used as statements] do not use them.

>> End If
>>
>> On IE the page never loads, and on Firefox I get a message stating
>> that the redirection limit has been exceeded.

Strange, but you are mixing serverside and clientside terminology.

Better show your errors, to see if they are serverside or browser errors.

>> Have I inadvertently caused a loop, and if so, why? Many thanks in
>> advance.

Why a loop?

> I use this:
>
> <%
> If Request.ServerVariables("HTTPS") = "off" Then
> Response.Redirect "https://" & Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_HOST") &
> Request.ServerVariables("URL") & "?" &
> Request.ServerVariables("QUERY_STRING")
> End If
> %>

That is classic ASP VBS!

--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

[Bob Barrows]

Alan Moseley wrote:
> Please can someone put me out of my misery. I am used a shared
> hosting provider to host my asp website. I need certain pages of my
> site to be viewed over SSL. I have therefore inserted the following
> code into the Page_Load event of a page that needs to be viewed over
> SSL:-
>
> Dim strURL As String = ""
> If Not Request.IsSecureConnection Then
> strURL = Request.Url.AbsoluteUri.Replace("http://", "https://")
> Response.Redirect(strURL, True)
> End If
>

As noted by Evertjian, this does not appear to be classic ASP vbscript
code, so:

There was no way for you to know it (except maybe by browsing through
some of the previous questions before posting yours - always a
recommended practice), but this is a classic (COM-based) asp newsgroup.
ASP.Net is a different technology from classic ASP. While you may be
lucky enough to find a dotnet-savvy person here who can answer your
question, you can eliminate the luck factor by posting your question to
a newsgroup where the dotnet-savvy people hang out. I suggest

microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet.

There are also forums at www.asp.net where you can find a lot of people
to help you.

--
HTH,
Bob Barrows