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Old Apr 17, 2016 | 3:40 pm
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issues using https to access FlyerTalk

Is using https to access FlyerTalk (i.e. using https:// in the URL instead of just plain http) officially supported, or is it a just-happens-to-work sort of thing?

I have noticed two issues:

1. Chrome reports:

Name:  Screen Shot 2016-04-17 at 17.32.41.png
Views: 141
Size:  29.9 KB

The cause, and how to remedy it in the web server settings, is described here:

http://security.stackexchange.com/qu...te-cryptograph

2. When a post includes an image attachment (such as the one above) the HTML source for the thumbnail uses an absolute http URL reference for the IMG SRC attribute. If the post is viewed via https, the presence of an http image, depending on the browser settings, results in either a mixed content warning or causes the image to be omitted entirely. It should hopefully be trivial to fix how thumbnails are included on the page to use a URL relative to the docroot so that it uses the same scheme of https or http as was originally used to fetch the underlying page.
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