URL() generates relative links by default. No http or https.......plain /app/controller/function links. that being said, URL has scheme and host parameters that can generate absolute links.
Back to the "performance" side. Usually the "redirection" from http to https is required at the very first access to the website, and is handled directly by the webserver that is usually in front of web2py. It takes generally 40 to 60 ms. If your app uses relative links always, once you get to the https "main" page, all links will point to https, without you worrying to pass host and scheme all the time (that can surely hurt your "page weight" on average, in addition to your tipings skills.) Just to put things in perspective, this means that you're worrying over 60 ms in the whole user experience of your app (even in a supersimple website, users should stay there at least a minute in the app ?!?). You'd better waste sleep hours on something else :-P BTW: it's all here http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/04/the-core#URL On Wednesday, May 21, 2014 9:53:07 PM UTC+2, Richard wrote: > > Hello, > > I am searching a way to make URL() return an address with HTTP"S" instead > of plain HTTP. I didn't find a way to do that... > > There is : > > request.is_https > request.requires_https() > > But they seem to be for preventing access to plain HTTP. > > So, that mean that URL() always redirect to HTTP and never to HTTPS... > That may reduce performance, I had read long time ago that reducing > redirection is "rule number 1" for improving loading speed... > > Maybe it could be a good idea to add a flag that let generate URL() with > HTTPS instead of only HTTP?? > > Richard > > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
