Rewrite https://mysite.com to https://www.mysite.com

[Phillip B Oldham]

Thomas wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I have purchased an SSL certificate for www.mysite.com, therefore I
> would like to rewrite any incoming request from https://mysite.com to
> https://www.mysite.com in order to avoid the web browser saying the
> certificate is not valid and that there my be fraud. How can I do
> that?
>
> It works well for http, but for https, the web browser keeps
> complaining the certificate is not valide for mysite.com
>   

I'm pretty sure there's no way around this. I believe that the browser, 
seeing that you're using the https:// protocol, checks for the 
certificate *first* before actually doing a request for the page (which 
would return your redirect header).

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*Phillip B Oldham*
The Activity People
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