Question

Is there any more or less standard way to specify a route that would create URL’s with explicitly specified scheme?

I’ve tried the solution specified here but it’s not excellent for me for several reasons:

1. It doesn’t support base url request property. Actually rewrite router ignores it when URL scheme is specified explicitly.
2. It’s needed to specify separate static route for each scheme-dependent URL (it’s not possible to chain module route with hostname route because of base url is ignored).
3. It’s needed to determine HTTP_HOST manually upon router initialization in bootstrap as long as request object is not present within FrontController yet.

Answer 1

Use a combination of the ServerUrl and Url view helpers to construct your URLs, eg (view context)

<?php $this->getHelper('ServerUrl')->setScheme('https') ?>
...
<a href="<?php echo $this->serverUrl($this->url(array(
    'url' => 'params'), 'route', $reset, $encode)) ?>">My Link</a>