Spoiler: What the heck is HTTPS?
I'm tentatively planning to flip the switch Friday morning to redirect all HTTP traffic to HTTPS. Normally this wouldn't be a big deal, but because this is a forum, it may impact the way you post a little bit. The main thing to be concerned with is the
img
tag. This tag allows you to embed an image hosted on another site into your posts & private messages. Unfortunately, if your browser sees insecure content(transmitted over HTTP) embedded in a secure page, it will refuse to download & display it. Fortunately, if a site supports both HTTP & HTTPS, we can tell your browser to use HTTPS even if the image is embedded with an HTTP URL. If the site hosting the image does not support HTTPS, however, it will not show up!Example of HTTP(insecure) image URL:
http://i.imgur.com/hkt0d2i.jpg
Example of its HTTPS(secure) equivalent:
https://i.imgur.com/hkt0d2i.jpg
The above will work if linked as either version since the "https" version works.
If you try embedding an image and it doesn't show up, a safe bet would be to download it and throw it up on .
Other affected tags: bgimg, thumbnail, & hoverimg.
What about old posts?
We fixed all old posts & private messages going back to the beginning of time. We did this by moving the insecure images to mafiascum.net and replacing the URLs in the affected post & PMs.
Questions? Ask away!
Thanks to & for helping with this!
