12-28-2016, 04:10 PM | #31 |
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I know nothing about this stuff, so maybe this is a dumb question. But I don't think it's critical that old hotlinked images be displayed. Can you just break the image link and leave the text link there, pointing to the picture?
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12-28-2016, 04:11 PM | #32 |
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Well, that'll serve us for hotlinking.
And while "converting to https," invites the response, "Yeah, you know me." it doesn't really want it to come to the party because of the superfluous s at the end. So, no.
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12-28-2016, 04:13 PM | #33 |
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Or download the image, break the link and put the image back in the post, but only UT and the mods can do that.
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12-28-2016, 04:14 PM | #34 |
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Yeah, I'm not fixing thousands of hot linked images.
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12-28-2016, 04:26 PM | #35 |
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12-28-2016, 04:54 PM | #36 |
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And it may not matter all that much either.
Google is downgrading pages not served up with https, and soon they will be sending warnings about any page that appears to be collecting password or credit card data over a page without https. Do they downgrade if the page is secure, but contains insecure sections? I don't know. It's an issue because, if you're not logged in, every Cellar page has a login box at the top. The register page is entirely secure... |
12-28-2016, 05:21 PM | #37 |
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We are currently enforcing https, which means if people are browsing with http they will get rudely re-directed to the https version.
Let's see if any issues are reported in the next hour or so |
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One probably has to look outside of database fixes as some folks did with phpBB by creating an extension that runs hyperlinked http requests through an SSL image proxy server which rewrites them to https to appear as secure for viewing. I don't know if anything like this has ever been developed for vBulletin; but, it might be worth looking around for. If you find something, it might be worth bringing back the tip mug to pay for it. I suppose you could do a poll.
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12-28-2016, 05:31 PM | #39 |
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The long run plan is to get away from vBulletin though, cos vBulletin has lost its mojo. But it may be possible to proxy these requests anyway... looking into it...
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12-28-2016, 05:35 PM | #40 | |
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Conversely, I'm not a big fan of data rot, so there's that...
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12-28-2016, 05:40 PM | #41 |
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It is interesting to notice how many sites on the net have this issue... and how many won't even serve up https versions. https://cnn.com serves up a ton of http:
This may give us some Google mojo. |
12-28-2016, 05:40 PM | #42 |
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@ Flint,
Yes, unfortunately, it only preserves viewing ability. |
12-28-2016, 06:01 PM | #43 |
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Clicking on the link in post 41.
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12-28-2016, 07:54 PM | #44 |
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I'm getting the privacy message. I'll come back tomorrow when the people that know what they are doing get done.
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I ask, because I have an editor that can handle very, very large files. I've only bothered to try it on text files, not... other files. And I don't know what kind of files you're dealing with wrt the places where the offending "BBCODE bit of text" is. The editor is at work and my brain is offline. If you're interested, indicate that and I'll dig up the editor / link info for you. The tool all by itself is impressive.
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