Switching between http to https

Sometimes we need to make few pages to run in https and few run in http, I thought to find someway where we can change the browsing of page from http to https or https to http. There is very simple way to do it.
Let's start.

1. Create a module with name Secure.cs file under App_code folder and paste the below code

using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Xml.Linq;

///

/// Summary description for Secure

///

public class Secure :IHttpModule
{
public Secure()
{
}

public void Dispose()
{
}

public void Init(HttpApplication application)
{
application.BeginRequest += (new EventHandler(this.Application_BeginRequest));
}

private void Application_BeginRequest(Object source, EventArgs e)
{
HttpApplication httpApp;
HttpContext httpContext;
try
{
httpApp = (HttpApplication)source;
httpContext = httpApp.Context;
string str = httpContext.Request.RawUrl;
XDocument xmlDoc = XDocument.Load(httpContext.Server.MapPath("Secure.xml"));
var q = from c in xmlDoc.Descendants("Page")
where c.Attribute("URL").Value.Trim().ToLower().Equals(str.Trim().ToLower())
select (string)c.Element("Secure");
foreach (string name in q)
{
if (Convert.ToBoolean(name))
{
httpContext.Response.Redirect(httpContext.Request.Url.ToString().Replace("http", "https"));
}
else
{
httpContext.Response.Redirect(httpContext.Request.Url.ToString().Replace("https", "http"));
}
}
}

catch (Exception ex)
{
}
}
}

2. In web.config, add below lines
<httpModules/>
<add name="MyHttpModule" type="Secure"/>
</httpModules/>



3. Create a XML with name secure.xml like below image, In the below xml replace your URL attribute of page element with your url(directory + page name) and in secure element specify true means, you want it to be accessed as https and if it is false , it means you want to access it as http. You can change the xml file in production system also and you don't need to compile the application and deploy and so many other things.






Happy Coding :)