ssl and Amazon Load Balancer

  • I understand you don’t have a public git repository. I had to do a small patch to fix a bug that was occurring when for our site that is behind a amazon load balance. in the file inc/define.php function w3_is_https added the first case statement below. 

    function w3_is_https() {
    switch (true) {
        case (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO']) && (int) $_SERVER['HTTP_
X_FORWARDED_PROTO'] == 'https'):
        case (isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && w3_to_boolean($_SERVER['HTTPS'])):
        case (isset($_SERVER['SERVER_PORT']) && (int) $_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'] == 443):
            return true;
    }

    return false;
}

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  • Thanks! Curious…for your inserted case statement i notice you int cast HTTP_
    X_FORWARDED_PROTO     despite this variable containing a string (ie. “https”). Mistake?

    Technically, WordPress does say this:

    Websites behind load balancers or reverse proxies that support HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO can be fixed by adding the following code to the wp-config.php file, above the require_once call: 

if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO']) && $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO'] == 'https')
    $_SERVER['HTTPS'] = 'on';

    And so technically it’s not a bug in w3tc, but would be a nice convenience. So, I will consider adding it into this forked w3tc public git repo (incorporates fixes continuously) since most people won’t realize that article exists.

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