Yup-- as Ilari says, every request is tagged with the scheme. -=R On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Ilari Liusvaara < ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 07:06:59AM +0100, Eliot Lear wrote: > > > I'm a little concerned about backward compatibility with this approach. > > There do exist many web sites that offer different content today on the > > two ports. Are you suggesting that they would become non-compliant? > > There is HTTP vs. HTTPS indication in the bytestream itself (:scheme, > IIRC). > > Also, in some situations, the application protocols might not appreciate if > client and server can't agree on HTTP vs. HTTPS... > > There's another problem tho. Many present websites don't like requests for > HTTP URLs over TLS (I tested what one does[1]: It returns a default page > with > 200 status, Ouch). > > > [1] That website is using PHP (FastCGI) on top of Apache (mod_ssl). > > > -Ilari >
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