[Greasemonkey] https

[Fernando Cassia]

On 6/15/06, daddydave <daddydave at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I noticed something regarding https vs http
>
> If I go to https://www.yahoo.com, it redirects to http://www.yahoo.com


It means the web server redirects all inbound requests to port (secure http)
to port 80 (normal http).

But if I go to https://ma.gnolia.com, it goes to https://ma.gnolia.com and
> still appears to function exactly the same (except for my user script not
> working unless I @include https version of the site).
>
> Is it possible that that the https:// version of the site exists
> accidentally?


There is no such thing as "an https:// VERSION of the site". It the same
bloody site!.
Let me clarify.... you have a web server... you set it to make
/data/something/yoursite/root/ as the root server. Then all data under
/data/something/yoursite/root WILL BE DISPLAYED by the web server when the
request for a given domain name arrives at port 80 via http protocol.

What some web servers have is the ability to serve pages BOTH on HTTP (port
80) and HTTPS (port 443). It's the same single data set, served on both port
80 and port 443 . OF COURSE, you could configure port 443 to give a whole
different set of data, if you'd prefer, but that would require extra
configuration work.

FC