Author: bitburner | Posted on: 7/28/2009 9:12:50 AM | Views : 522

In my application I have certain pieces of the site that are secured with forms authentication and SSL.  We are also using a web.sitemap file to specify what URL's to navigate to when a user clicks on a navigation control that is bound to this specific sitemap file. 
The question is this...
Is it possible to tell the sitemap provider or whatever handler that resolves the virtual paths to use the https: prefix instead of http:?
so in the sitemap you would normally have this...
<siteMapNode url="~/Player/MyAccount.aspx" title="My Account"  description="" roles="PlayerRole,AdminRole"/>
    
the player directory requires the client to use SSL to retrieve pages - when I turn the require SSL flag on in IIS I get the usual error message that appears when you attempt to navigate using a control bound to the sitemap and the page the control navigates to requires SSL with ...

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