Center-for-Research-Libraries / vufind

CRL Implimentation of VuFind frontend for FOLIO. A library resource discovery portal designed and developed for libraries by libraries
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Add HSTS support #134

Open ryan-jacobs opened 2 years ago

ryan-jacobs commented 2 years ago

We currently redirect http requests to https via apache rewrite rules. This works but has some shortcomings, including:

See: https://help.upguard.com/en/articles/4581202-what-s-the-difference-between-using-hsts-and-doing-a-301-redirect

Even with HSTS we cannot guarantee all request come in via https all the time, but it is a good start. This is especially important given all the existing incoming links out there for our catalog.