I'm trying to find the best way to make paperclip urls secure, but only for secure pages.
For instance, the homepage, which shows images stored in S3, is http://mydomain.com and the image url is http://s3.amazonaws.com/mydomainphotos/89/thisimage.JPG?1284314856.
I have secure pages like https://mydomain.com/users/my_stuff/49 that has images stored in S3, but the S3 protocol is http and not https, so the user gets a warning from the browser saying that some elements on the page are not secure, blah blah blah.
I know that I can specify :s3_protocol in the model, but this makes everything secure even when it isn't necessary. So, I'm looking for the best way to change the protocol to https on the fly, only for secure pages.
One (probably bad) way would be to create a new url method like:
def custom_url(style = default_style, ssl = false)
ssl ? self.url(style).gsub('http', 'https') : self.url(style)
end
One thing to note is that I'm using the ssl_requirement plugin, so there might be a way to tie it in with that.
I'm sure there is some simple, standard way to do this that I'm overlooking, but I can't seem to find it.