Detect HTTP or HTTPS then force HTTPS in JavaScript

Question

Is there any way to detect HTTP or HTTPS and then force usage of HTTPS with JavaScript?

I have some codes for detecting the HTTP or HTTPS but I can't force it to use https: .

I'm using the window.location.protocol property to set whatever the site is to https: then refresh the page to hopefully reload a new https'ed URL loaded into the browser.

if (window.location.protocol != "https:") {
   window.location.protocol = "https:";
   window.location.reload();
}

Answer 1

Try this

if (location.protocol !== 'https:') {
    location.replace(`https:${location.href.substring(location.protocol.length)}`);
}

location.href = blah adds this redirect to the browser history. If the user hits the back button, they will be redirected back to the the same page. It is better to use location.replace as it doesn't add this redirect to the browser history.

Answer 2

Setting location.protocol navigates to a new URL. No need to parse/slice anything.

if (location.protocol !== "https:") {
  location.protocol = "https:";
}

Firefox 49 has a bug where https works but https: does not. Said to be fixed in Firefox 54.

Answer 3

It is not good idea because you just temporary redirect user to https and browser doesn't save this redirect.

You describe task for web-server (apache, nginx etc) http 301, http 302

Answer 4

How about this?

if (window.location.protocol !== 'https:') {
    window.location = 'https://' + window.location.hostname + window.location.pathname + window.location.hash;
}

Ideally you'd do it on the server side, though.

Answer 5

if (location.protocol == 'http:')
  location.href = location.href.replace(/^http:/, 'https:')

Answer 6

You should check this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Content-Security-Policy/upgrade-insecure-requests

Add this meta tag to your index.html inside head

<meta http-equiv="Content-Security-Policy" content="upgrade-insecure-requests">

Hope it helped.

Answer 7

Not a Javascript way to answer this but if you use CloudFlare you can write page rules that redirect the user much faster to HTTPS and it's free. Looks like this in CloudFlare's Page Rules:

Answer 8

You can do:

  <script type="text/javascript">        
        if (window.location.protocol != "https:") {
           window.location.protocol = "https";
        }
    </script>

Answer 9

Functional way

window.location.protocol === 'http:' && (location.href = location.href.replace(/^http:/, 'https:'));

Answer 10

The below code assumes that the variable 'str' contains your http://.... string. It checks to see if it is https and if true does nothing. However if it is http it replaces http with https.

if (str.indexOf('https') === -1) {
  str = str.replace('http', 'https')
}

Answer 11

I like the answers for this question. But to be creative, I would like to share one more way:

<script>if (document.URL.substring(0,5) == "http:") window.location.replace('https:' + document.URL.substring(5));</script>

Answer 12

Hi i used this solution works perfectly.No Need to check, just use https.

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
document.location="https:" + window.location.href.substring(window.location.protocol.length, window.location.href.length);
</script>

Answer 13

I have just had all the script variations tested by Pui Cdm, included answers above and many others using php, htaccess, server configuration, and Javascript, the results are that the script

<script type="text/javascript">        
function showProtocall() {
        if (window.location.protocol != "https") {
            window.location = "https://" + window.location.href.substring(window.location.protocol.length, window.location.href.length);
            window.location.reload();
        }
    }
    showProtocall();
</script> 

provided by vivek-srivastava works best and you can add further security in java script.