Is there any reason why you would not want to redirect port 80 to SSL in the server document?Thanks.
Subject: not everything requires ssl
easy: you might have pages/dBs that do not require SSL. SSL contains a certain amount of overhead and on a busy server you might not want to force ALL traffic over SSL.Look at any e-commerce site. Your log-in page and the shopping cart will be on SSL, but just browsing the items will go over standard http