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List:       apache-modperl
Subject:    Re: how to detect if current connection is https?
From:       Louis-David Mitterrand <vindex+lists-modperl () apartia ! org>
Date:       2014-06-12 12:56:04
Message-ID: 20140612125604.GA29558 () apartia ! fr
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On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 11:50:45AM +0200, Torsten Förtsch wrote:
> On 12/06/14 11:41, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:
> > I found Apache2::ModSSL which adds $c->is_https but it seems old and not
> > packaged for debian.
> 
> I am the author of said module. I haven't tried it with the httpd24
> branch. But for httpd 2.2. it is expected to work.
> 
> However, the only reason you might need it is to get access to SSL
> related stuff prior to the response phase. If you only need that
> information in the response phase, you can have mod_ssl set a bunch of
> environment variables accessible via $r->subprocess_env.
> 
> Also, SSL in HTTPD is bound to a certain endpoint on the server. So, if
> you know that your server listens on IP:PORT for SSL connections, you
> can check that using the modperl API.

On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 01:15:36PM +0200, Winfried Neessen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> mod_ssl in Apache 2.x has the option to set specific environment variables for
> SSL related stuff. This requires "SSLOptions" directive to be set to at least
> "+StdEnvVars". If that is set, you can access it easily by checking for $ENV{'HTTPS'}.
> 
> See https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_ssl.html for more information.

Thank you both for your suggestions.

I finally settled on: $r->subprocess_env('REQUEST_SCHEME') eq 'https'
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