Laravel 4.2: Force URL to be rendered as HTTP or HTTPS

Question

We have a simple route defined like the following one:

Route

// Home
Route::get('/home', [
    'as' => 'home::index',
    'uses' => 'IndexController@home'
]);

View

<a href="{{ route('home::index') }}">Home</a>

We need to force our link/route in view rendered as HTTP or in some cases as HTTPS route eg http://host.domain/home or https://host.domain/home .

We cannot use URL::forceSchema("http") or URL::forceSchema("https") since we need to force HTTPS on a HTTP page and HTTP on a HTTPS page. We have a multidomain application. Some domains running via HTTP some via HTTPS. A link to different domain / "application section" can be placed everywhere. A domain running via HTTPS cant be accessed via HTTP. A domain running on HTTP cant be accessed via HTTPS

How to force a route rendered as a specific hypertext protocol?

Answer 1

There is a section in Laravel documentaion under title Forcing A Route To Be Served Over HTTPS . It does not mention generated URL for the route, but I can see in Illuminate\\Routing\\UrlGenerator code this settings is respected in getRouteScheme method. So adding a new value http / https to the action array should do the trick:

---

Force route to be rendered as HTTP:

Route::get('/home', [
    'as' => 'home::index',
    'uses' => 'IndexController@home',
    'http'
]);

Force route to be rendered as HTTPS:

Route::get('/home', [
    'as' => 'home::index',
    'uses' => 'IndexController@home',
    'https'
]);

Now route('home::index') should generate URL based on schema you defined.