proper way to redirect from http to https w/query string notifier

[Francis Daly]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 02:50:29AM +0900, Edho Arief wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 2:32 AM, Francis Daly <francis at daoine.org> wrote:

Hi there,

> > If your backend will accept /request?source=server1 and
> > /request?&source=server1 as being equivalent, then you could use the
> > $is_args variable and just always
> >
> >   return 301 https://$host$request_uri$is_args&source=server1;
> >
> 
> that looks wrong since when there's argument:

Ah, yes, you are correct - I had it backwards.

I guess one could set something using "map" to be "?" if $is_args is
empty and "&" if $is_args is ?, and build a correct "return" line from
that -- but the original "if ($query_string)" is probably simpler at
that point.

> One possible solution would be just `$host$uri?source=server1&$args`
> 
> <note: untested>

That will work in the common case, but $uri has been percent-unescaped
so may not be suitable to send as-is.

Thanks,

	f
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Francis Daly        francis at daoine.org