how to make few pages secure using SSL?

[eluser]Vik[/eluser]
I saw that thread - so the hooks approach is viable? Someone in that thread was saying it was better to use htaccess - but for me, the hooks approach is probably better, because I only want to use https for certain views, rather than for a whole controller.

I probably could devote a controller to my secure pages, but now that I've heard from you that the hooks approach works, I can use that. Thanks!