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Non https content

Open grantcodes opened this issue 7 years ago • 4 comments

It's quite normal for people not to have their site on https, this causes issues with readers having mixed content issues.

Should the server be able to proxy images and content via https or not?

grantcodes avatar Feb 13 '18 16:02 grantcodes

That would be an interesting feature that the microsub server could provide to clients. It does seem like this will always be a problem.

aaronpk avatar Feb 13 '18 17:02 aaronpk

The main cause is almost certainly going to be images so it is tangentially related to #2 as well

grantcodes avatar Feb 13 '18 17:02 grantcodes

As of a few days ago, Aperture now downloads any media resources it encounters and rewrites the URLs in the post to its own copy it is hosting. You shouldn't need to do anything differently in the client, and all the URLs will be https now.

I'm not sure this needs to be something in the spec, since the Microsub server can just rewrite the URLs transparently if it wants.

aaronpk avatar Mar 14 '18 14:03 aaronpk

This does sound a bit of out of scope of the spec but could probably go in a “How to Solve for X” situation. Only concern would be highlighting in Microsub clients that need the canonical post versus using exactly what the Microsub server provided.

(Originally published at: https://v2.jacky.wtf/post/39df669b-43eb-4d8b-b546-10d978af9e19)

jalcine avatar Apr 14 '19 21:04 jalcine