HTTP header to insert for SSL offload

"Rosenberry, Eric" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.programming.load-balancing.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
We are having a problem with a new application being written in house whereby the application generates all redirects with http:// links instead of https:// links.  The application has no idea that it is being front-ended by a SSL offloading load balancer.

The solution I find out on the Internet is to have the load balancer insert some kind of header into each request to tell the application to generate all redirects with https:// instead of http.

My question to the list:  Is there a standard header recommended for this purpose, or does everyone make up their own?  I see several references to this online.  I believe Citrix recommends "SSL_OFFLOAD".

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

-Eric
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