refactoring.

laravel/response.php

@@ -243,10 +243,10 @@ class Response {
 	/**
 	 * Send all of the response headers to the browser.
 	 *
-	 * The develop may set any response headers they wish using the "header" method.
-	 * All of the headers set by the developer will be automatically sent to the
-	 * browser when the response is sent via the "send" method. There is no need
-	 * to call this method before calling the "send" method.
+	 * The developer may set response headers using the "header" method. All of
+	 * the headers set by the developer will be automatically sent to the browser
+	 * when the response is sent via the "send" method. There is no need to call
+	 * this method before calling the "send" method.
 	 *
 	 * The protocol and status header will be set automatically, as well as the
 	 * content-type and charset, unless those headers have been set explicitly.

laravel/url.php

@@ -20,14 +20,29 @@ class URL {
 	{
 		if (filter_var($url, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL) !== false) return $url;
 
+		return rtrim(static::root($https), '/').'/'.ltrim($url, '/');
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Get the URL to the root of the application.
+	 *
+	 * @param  bool   $https
+	 * @return string
+	 */
+	protected static function root($https = false)
+	{
 		$base = Config::$items['application']['url'].'/'.Config::$items['application']['index'];
 
+		// It is possible for the developer to totally disable the generation of links
+		// that use HTTPS. This is primarily to create a convenient test environment
+		// when using SSL is not an option. We will only replace the first occurence
+		// of "http" with "https" since URLs are sometimes passed in query strings.
 		if ($https and Config::$items['application']['ssl'])
 		{
 			$base = preg_replace('~http://~', 'https://', $base, 1);
 		}
 
-		return rtrim($base, '/').'/'.ltrim($url, '/');
+		return $base;
 	}
 
 	/**