The plain HTTP request was sent to HTTPS port

[Igor Sysoev]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 09:08:42AM -0400, Ilan Berkner wrote:

> I've come across this setting for nginx, but am not sure if this will solve
> it?
> 
>   proxy_set_header X_FORWARDED_PROTO https;

This depends on proxied server.

> 2009/8/21 Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru>
> 
> > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 09:05:18PM -0400, Ilan Berkner wrote:
> >
> > > So we're doing a credit card transaction and it comes back from paypal on
> > > the return trip with that error (on our end).  The reason is that the
> > return
> > > URL is:
> > >
> > > http://www.domain.com:443/....
> > >
> > > so its trying to access port 443 via http.
> > >
> > > I won't know till tomorrow, but I hope that we can adjust the return URL
> > to
> > > correctly be "https://www.domain.com... than it works as it should.
> > >
> > > My question is, should I put something in the Nginx configuration file
> > that
> > > if someone tries to access "http" using port 443, redirect them to https?
> > > If so, how?  Is that the correct way of going about it outside of
> > correcting
> > > the return URL (which of course would be the ideal way), but in general,
> > > should requests coming to http://www.domain.com:443 be forced to HTTPS?
> >
> > nginx supports some internal error codes to handle error_page redirection:
> >
> >     error_page  497  https://$host$request_uri;
> >
> > 497 means that plain HTTP request was sent to HTTPS port.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Igor Sysoev
> > http://sysoev.ru/en/
> >
> >

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