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I am trying to find how can I detect with JavaScript if I am in a HTTP or HTTPS environment.
I am calling an Ajax request so if I am in HTTPS and call HTTP Ajax then I get a 302 Moved Temporarily.
I was thinking of getting the current window.location.href and do a string manipulation.
What is the best way of detecting HTTPS using JavaScript?
You can use the non-standard
In Firefox: MDC documentation
In IE, it seems to be
MSDN documentation
I can’t find reliable info on how this behaves on other browsers, but I expect they adhere to the quasi-standard of
document.location.protocol.Maybe the jQuery url plugin sorts this out without having to deal with cross-browser differences – I’ve never used it myself, but it looks promising: