Why View Cart has to load with httpS ?

General General Questions
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Can anyone tell me why “View Cart” has to load in secure mode? Seems like a needless switch to httpS…



Any concrete data or theories?

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[quote name=‘TexasGuy’]Can anyone tell me why “View Cart” has to load in secure mode? Seems like a needless switch to httpS…



Any concrete data or theories?[/QUOTE]



This bugs me also. The only reason I can see is that it is part of the ‘checkout’ controller and the secure mode is determined on the controller level. I haven’t looked into seeing if it is possible to exclude a specific controller subset yet.

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If you have require SSL in authentication areas on, then I’m certain it requires SSL. (could be wrong)

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[quote name=‘JesseLeeStringer’]If you have require SSL in authentication areas on, then I’m certain it requires SSL. (could be wrong)[/QUOTE]



If you have SSL on for the checkout part then yes it makes the cart require it too, but the issue is that the cart page doesn’t need SSL. The checkout steps yes, the cart no. Typically the cart page does not have SSL. It is not needed since no sensitive data is being sent and the extra overhead for SSL could lead to a slower loading page for no reason at all.