SSL pages under ASP.NET MVC

Question

How do I go about using HTTPS for some of the pages in my ASP.NET MVC based site?

Steve Sanderson has a pretty good tutorial on how to do this in a DRY way on Preview 4 at:

http://blog.codeville.net/2008/08/05/adding-httpsssl-support-to-aspnet-mvc-routing/

Is there a better / updated way with Preview 5?,

Answer 1

If you are using ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2 or higher, you can now simply use:

[RequireHttps] public ActionResult Login() {    return View(); } 

Though, the order parameter is worth noting, as mentioned here.

Answer 2

MVCFutures has a 'RequireSSL' attribute.

(thanks Adam for pointing that out in your updated blogpost)

Just apply it to your action method, with 'Redirect=true' if you want an http:// request to automatically become https:// :

    [RequireSsl(Redirect = true)] 

See also: ASP.NET MVC RequireHttps in Production Only