Ruby on Rails

On Jan 3, 7:40 pm, "Mustafa C." <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> > Have you looked at this page?
> >http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1662262/rails-redirect-with-https
>
> > Walter
>
> Hi Walter,
> Thanks. I had seen it; it made sense to revisit it at this point.
> However, it still doesn't cure my problem. I put in the below code:
>   def require_ssl
>     if request.ssl?
>       return true
>     else
>       redirect_to :protocol => "https://"
>     end
>
> And athttp://mysite.com; when I attempt a login, I get following:
> Processing SessionsController#create  [POST]
>   Parameters: {"action"=>"create", "controller"=>"sessions",
> "login"=>"my_user", "password"=>"[FILTERED]"}
> Redirected tohttps://mysite.com/sessions
> Filter chain halted as [:require_ssl] rendered_or_redirected.
>

Redirecting halts the filter chain - this is entirely normal

> It behaves similarly with the following path as well:
> redirect_to :protocol => "https://", :controller => "home", :action =>
> "index".
>
> I am not clear how redirect_to works. Rails code says "It redirects the
> browser to the target specified in +options+". My client is Javascript,
> how does it ask the browser to redirect, so I can handle that? There
> seems to be a lower level retry mechanism, which doesn't reach up to
> Javascript??

The browser handles the redirect - your javascript won't be aware of
it at all.

Fred
>
> Regarding my second question above, ie. messy redirects, I'm thinking it
> should normally be pretty straight-forward to switch to HTTPS at the
> browser and send the XHR while in HTTPS. But changing back to HTTP will
> be a pain, all the magic of Ajax will be lost if I reload the entire
> page.
>
> This looks like an uphill battle... I'm sure this has been done before
> using Rails + Javascript.
>
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