Request.IsSecureConnection Implementation for use with Apache

[paulshannon]

Hi,

Does anyone know the actual implementation of
Request.IsSecureConnection?

We want to mimic an SSL request from a Apache proxy request so that we
don't have to setup SSL on the windows box for the proxy request. At
the moment, the windows box only sees plaintext HTTP requests, but we
can send additional headers with the proxied request so that
Request.IsSecureConnection may still work.

Can Request.IsSecureConnection be controlled externally in this
manner? Does the implementation use headers?

Cheers,

Paul Shannon

 

[Mark Rae]

Can Request.IsSecureConnection be controlled externally in this
manner?

I don't believe so:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.httprequest.issecureconnection.aspx

Does the implementation use headers?

I would imagine it gets its value from Request.ServerVariables["HTTPS"]