Hi guys, here is another suggestion that I personally did experience and could be very useful to Abantecart's upgrade.
Here is my personal experience:
Since we are creating an online store we want all our customers to visit our store in the https form (for security reasons plus for the fact that when our customers see the green "lock" they feel more secure).
Another reason why I wanted to do this, was because I am using a third-party template so I had css conflicts with the https and http urls. In my case the https was showing everything OK but not the http url. So yes, I wanted everyone to be send to the https url.
Frankly speaking I did not know how to do it and thanks to a member in here (thank you sam
) I was finally able to do it!
However, I came across some serious issues afterwards:
1. One issue was that because the admin panel sends you to an http address (at least that is my case) I got locked out of it.
2. Second issue: Even if your https-address store appears to be working correctly, when a customer tries to log in (due to another http case) you get hit with a critical error.
Consequently, and because I was unable to resolve all this stuff by myself, I did contact the guys of my hosting provider who thankfully did resolve the entire thing for me.
Bottom line is this: I do not know how much programming it may require, but just keep in mind the conflicts that may occur between https and http urls and regarding the marketplace... that the extensions are able to work in these (or both) urls... you do not want developers to get smashed for something like this.
Just throwing some ideas, with friendly regards
