Redirect request based on source $scheme !!

[Avraham Serour]

if you don't own the domain then you won't ever receive the request and you
can't do nothing about it

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 1:01 PM, shahzaib shahzaib <shahzaib.cb at gmail.com>
wrote:

> One point is worth mentioning, we don't own ad.domain.com its a 3rd party
> website. All we can control is ourdomain.com.
>
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 3:25 PM, shahzaib shahzaib <shahzaib.cb at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> >>you can create separate server blocks for each domain
>> I think issue will still persist. Say https://ad.domain.com makes static
>> call to http://ourdomain.com , it'll end up with conflicted scheme i.e
>> https -> http. We can't force http to https as well because it'll break
>> static calls from http -> http.
>>
>> Actually we've video sharing website from where people embed http/https
>> links to there websites. Now the problem is, some of the HTTPS  websites
>> have embedded HTTP URL links from our website instead of HTTPS due to which
>> the code is unable to execute on their HTTPS website because it is making
>> call from https -> http which is wrong. The number of these malformed links
>> are huge and there's no way that those users can manually correct
>> the embedded links by editing http to https and vice versa).
>>
>> So we're thinking to have some condition in place that if the request for
>> HTTP embedded link comes from any HTTPS domain , nginx will detect that
>> source $scheme and redirect that request to HTTPS.
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Avraham Serour <tovmeod at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> you can create separate server blocks for each domain
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 11:36 AM, shahzaib shahzaib <
>>> shahzaib.cb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>>    Is there a way we can serve $scheme (HTTP/HTTPS) based on source
>>>> request ? Such as :
>>>>
>>>> if https://ad.domain.com --> sends request to http://ourdomain.com (as
>>>> it'll fail due to cross  $scheme conflict)
>>>>
>>>> So http://ourdomain.com will check that the request invoked using
>>>> https $scheme and it'll redirect http://ourdomain.com to
>>>> https://ourdomain.com for that particular ad.domain.com.
>>>>
>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> Is that possible guys ?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in Advance !
>>>>
>>>> Regards.
>>>> Shahzaib
>>>>
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