Posted by Philip Hallstrom on 06/29/05 21:13

> On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 10:57 -0700, Philip Hallstrom wrote:
>>> I am using the following code to turn http into https and get my ssl
>>> working.
>>>
>>> if($HTTP_SERVER_VARS["HTTPS"] != "on")
>>> {
>>> $newurl = "https://" . $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"] . $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
>>> header("location: $newurl");
>>> }
>>
>> $newurl = "https://" . ereg_replace("^www.", "", $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"])......
>
> Wouldn't
>
> $newUrl = 'https://' . substr( $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'], 4 ) ........
>
> be a _hell_ of a lot faster?

Only if he can gaurantee that $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] *ALWAYS* is prefixed
with "www." Otherwise he might end up with chost.com instead of
aztechost.com...

-philip

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