What is the recommended method of HTTP Redirection from multiple URLs to one URL?

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Published on 2010-05-06T07:04:05Z Indexed on 2010/05/06 7:08 UTC
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I have a website that has a number of URLs that people use to connect to that site (uses the bindings on the IIS website and everything works as intended):

Now what I want to do is have all of the URLs go to https://www.sample.com - so if you type in "http://xyz.sample.com" or "sample.com" you should go to https://www.sample.com

The question is what is the best mechanism to do this? I have one possible solution (which I will put as an answer to this question), but I get the feeling that there might be another, better solution available.

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