Redirecting from non standard port to https

I have a Virtual Server listening on port 55000 that I want to redirect to https:

 

Neither rules produced the intended result:

 

1.

 

rule redirect {

 

when HTTP_REQUEST {

 

HTTP::redirect https://[getfield [HTTP::host] ":" 1][HTTP::uri]

 

}

 

}

 

2.

 

rule redirect1 {

 

when HTTP_REQUEST {

 

HTTP::redirect "https://[HTTP::host][HTTP::uri]"

 

}

 

}

 

This what I see thru Http watcher:

 

StartTimeSizeMethodResultTypeURL

 

09:51:41.4370.030GET302Redirect to https://portal.sapinternal.net/http://portal.sapinternal.net:55000/

 

09:51:41.4672.0530GET302Redirect to https://portal.sapinternal.net:55000/index.htmlhttps://portal.sapinternal.net/

 

09:51:43.5200.040GET(Error 0x2f7d)*https://portal.sapinternal.net:55000/index.html

 

 

 

BTW: I am experiencing this issue using IE 6, but not with FireFox 2.0. Unfortunately the company standard is IE 6.