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#20956 Https external URLs are changed to Http

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Latest post by on Friday, 17 October 2014 17:20 CDT

Tuesday, 16 September 2014 00:00 CDT

hollai
I have two websites where https is enforced in Global config.

However, the problem with this is that I have external links pointing to other websites which links I have to keep http. (There is no https version of those websites.)

To resolve this problem, I set the AdminTools / SEO & Link Tools / Tools to NO.
This solves the issue with the external links, but causes a different problem: the https link which loads the Google fonts in the index file changes from https to http and the Google fonts do not load.
Interestingly, I see in the source code, that some of the https external links remain https (eg. Youtube, Facebook, Flickr)

Some examples
Innovationsgolf.com:
google fonts changes from https to http,
Facebook, Twitter remain https

exquison.com:
google fonts, and the fast.fonts script change from https to http

Regards,
Tom

Tuesday, 16 September 2014 00:28 CDT

nicholas
This feature will only substitute http:// with https:// in the entire HTML page. It will not change URLs inside CSS and JS documents loaded by the page. Since you are talking about Google Fonts, it's most likely that the plugin / template you are using to load them has hardcoded the HTTP protocol inside the CSS file instead of using Google's proposed // protocol instead of http:// or https://. The double slash, without the http(s)-colon prefix, means "use whatever protocol I used to load the page".

In any case since this is not a bug in our code that's all the help I can give you. I would suggest editing your CSS files and changing the protocol of the absolute URLs to HTTPS or, if it's your template loading the Google Fonts, contact your template developer.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
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Wednesday, 17 September 2014 10:16 CDT

hollai
Perfect, thank you very much, Nicholas.

We changed the format of the links in the header to "//" end that solved the problem.

Wednesday, 17 September 2014 10:27 CDT

nicholas
You're welcome!

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Friday, 17 October 2014 17:20 CDT

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