How can I change all links in the store to be https if the site accessed via https?

[RodG]

Oye, that's an entirely different action/request. What is expected to occur at say the login page, or checkout? And then again after such page(s)?

The answer to can it be done? Absolutely it could. What is the "advantage"? What is the benefit that you are seeking to gain? Or what problem is trying to be prevented?

Very good questions. I can't wait to see the answers :)

I'm wondering, though can't say that I've tried it if you changed your HTTP_SERVER to just //mydomain (dropping the http: and/or https:) how it would respond/react. The whole thing is deeper involved than just those one or two constants, but it makes me wonder.

This did also cross my mind, especially since it is about the only way that I can think of that would make the OP's request possible,

I wouldn't try it in a million years though - The security implications are *huge*. Just consider the case when (not if) a hacker tries to access the site using "ftp://domain.name:80"

The response will be from the server (port 80), but the FTP client won't render the html/php like a web client - it will show the 'raw' data , and since all URI's will now also be 'ftp' it wouldn't be difficult to have the ftp client load and display the config files complete with DB login details - all in plain text. (normal apache directives and .htaccess rules will no longer apply) ,

Game over.

Admittedly, I've almost certainly oversimplified things here - but the point I'd like to make is that *without* the http/https protocol specifier the opportunity for abuse by other protocols is both huge and unpredictable, so even though what the OP is seeking is possible (using this method) they really *shouldn't*.

Cheers
RodG