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If you wish to have ALL traffic protected by SSL we recommend that you request "HTTPS" for the protocol. This will create a redirect so that any traffic that goes to http://\[my site]/ will be redirected to https://\[my site]/.
In some cases you may wish to only have a portion of your site protected by SSL while the option portion is not. In this case if you specify "BOTH" then you will be responsible for determining whether a page can be displayed using SSL or non-SSL.
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