Hello,

As you all have probably guessed by my recent emails, I have a new MediaWiki running at my site. Thus far I'm completely loving it.

Another minor thing I'm trying to fix:

My Opera browser (and not the others) tacks on a ":443" to my SSL access URL during the http-to-https redirects. Any way I can change my server (Apache, MediaWiki, etc) to prevent Opera from doing this? Alternatively, is there something I can change in Opera (I'm running Opera 7.54u1)? I'd rather do the former instead of the latter if I can.

Details:

I run my site behind an SSL "firewall" (because it's basically a small-business corporate intranet) on my own server (it's actually a "VPS" hosted somewhere else--I have complete root access).

I'm redirecting all port-80 access to my site to port 443 (the standard SSL port) with the same URL (via my Apache 2.0.52 httpd.conf). Thus http://example.com/wiki automatically gets redirected to https://example.com/wiki (note the "https" vs "http").

However, in Opera (and not in Fireforx or IE), an access of http://example.com/wiki automatically gets redirected to https://example.com:443/wiki/Main_Page . HOWEVER, a link to http://example.com/wiki/Main_Page gets redirected to https://example.com/wiki/Main_Page (with the "https" but without the ":443"). This leads me to believe that there's something I can change in the "root" part of MediaWiki to change this behavior.

Any thoughts? I hunted around in the meta.mediawiki.org help and tried googling the email list archives (but could not get that to work) and did not find anything.

I can provide the pertinent http.conf details later if you like...I must scamper off to other work for now.

-Matt