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July 2024 roadmap blog post contains http (not https) links
Tl;dr - Could this blog post be updated to use https:// links for MSO/MSE in the final paragraph? Consider using the site names (not domain names) in the visible text, too (meta.stackexchange.com → ...
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Link to stackexchange.com is not HTTPS under the default "community-specific" close reason on per-site metas
There is a default close reason available on per-site metas under "Needs improvement → A community-specific reason" that has a link to stackexchange.com that is not HTTPS. For instance, on ...
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Should http links within the SE network be automatically converted to https?
I have noticed that occasionally some people still link to some other posts using http rather than https.
Two random examples I have seen recently: Dependent multiple choice vs. dependent choice - ...
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Could the citation helper include DOI-links as https rather than http?
The citation helper usually includes some link in the citation. Specifically, it includes a link to zbMATH.
And a link to a paper - quite often as DOI.
However, the DOI-links are in the "old"...
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Change blog link in election text to HTTPS
The introductory text for elections contains the following paragraph with a link that's still HTTP:
Community moderators are accorded the highest level of privilege on our community, and should ...
GlorfindelMod
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Link to per-site meta in the sidebar/dropdown "Step 1: Draft your question" is not HTTPS and has the old format meta.*.stackexchange.com
Similar to: Link to parent site is not HTTPS in the sidebar/dropdown "Step 1: Draft your question" on any per-site Meta.
When asking a question on some SE sites, such as Mathematics the ...
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Link to parent site is not HTTPS in the sidebar/dropdown "Step 1: Draft your question" on any per-site Meta
When asking a question here on Meta SE, the sidebar titled "Step 1: Draft your question" (which appears as a dropdown menu on mobile in the responsive design) has the following text:
Is ...
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Changing http to https and mobile links for Wikipedia
Many old posts with links to Wikipedia articles contain http rather than https links. As far as I can tell, it is better to have https link rather than http. (After all, internal links have been ...
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License links are not HTTPS in README files of Developer Surveys
I was having a look at the 2020 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results and noticed that the license links in README_2020.txt are not HTTPS. The links seem to be the same in the previous surveys too.
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user361230
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Old HTTP links to SE sites without ending / weren't converted to HTTPS links
About a year ago, several migration scripts were run to change old HTTP network-internal links across the network to HTTPS links. However, it appears that the script didn't modify links that lack the ...
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A bot script needs to be run to convert meta.[site] URLs to [site].meta URLs
The Community bot already ran through posts to convert internal http:// links to https://, which is great, but it needs to be run one more time: this time, it needs to convert links of this format:
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Should we force users to post links to SE sites in HTTPS?
Network-wide HTTPS is a good idea. SE devs have been working hard to replace existing HTTP links to HTTPS, and they even batch replaced links in existing posts with the Community bot on May 20[...
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Change links in errors and warnings to HTTPS
Another question here on Meta brought something to my attention. Most links in errors and warnings that come up when posting or editing still are HTTP. I have a few examples listed below from various ...
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When changing profile picture, the current picture is loaded via HTTP
When changing profile picture, a request is made to /users/popup/change-picture/<user-id>, which returns HTML displayed in a popup. This HTML contains an <img> tag with an HTTP link, for ...
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"View more [accounts]" link on user profile page is HTTP
The "View more" link below the list of accounts on user profile is HTTP instead of HTTPS.
Other stackexchange.com links are also HTTP, for example link to the network profile.
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Links to meta in custom close reasons still use old meta URLs
Strongly related to the continued use of non-HTTPS links, if a custom close reason features a link to meta, that link will be
Using HTTP instead of HTTPS
Using the old format for URLs on meta, meta....
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Http link in the side bar after the sites are rolled-out with https
In Ask Question, when you click inside the body section, we can see the How to Format section in the side bar.
In the list of tips, the last line is:
► basic HTML also allowed
There still the ...
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Links on the user page are HTTP, not HTTPS [duplicate]
When you visit your user page at https://stackexchange.com/users/<ID>/<NAME> (note HTTPS, secure connection), the links (e.g., top questions and answers) take you to the HTTP (not HTTPS!) ...
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Why aren't protocol relative links recognized as linked questions?
Yesterday someone edited my question and converted all of my un-encrypted http:// links to protocol relative //.
At first I was like "Sweet catch!" because I'm always getting on to our webmaster for ...
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HTTPS protocol does not carry over when visiting metas or chat
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When navigating throughout SE, can't the protocol be carried over, based on the previous page visited?
I know in Rails (which SE is not written in), you can link to sites as //example.com, ...
user261278
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Broken links to per-site metas [closed]
Accessing per-site metas over HTTPS is officially unsupported and known to be broken (Accessing per-site metas gives 403 forbidden from cloudflare-nginx, Untrusted connection when visiting per-site ...
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Chat https redirects to http
Yes, yes, I know https isn't officially supported.
If you go to a chat room link like https://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/1 (note that there isn't a room name), it would automatically redirect the ...
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The linked content on chat servers isn't protocol relative
The page at https://chat.stackexchange.com/ has all the stylesheets and scripts hard bound to use http:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://cdn-chat.sstatic.net/chat/css/chat.stackexchange.com.css?...
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Permalink short URLs lose HTTPS
Here's something I noticed while testing a client-side fix for this issue.
If you follow a permalink / shortcut URL with an https: protocol, like:
https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/223725
you'll get ...
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All internal links on Stack Exchange sites should be protocol-relative
In preparation for the eventual deployment of full HTTPS support on Stack Exchange, and also to make the currently available "alpha" HTTPS support more usable, all links from Stack Exchange sites to ...
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https links to same site don't auto-prettify
Normally, when one posts a link to a question on the same site, it automatically 'prettyfies' the link.
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/218060/https-links-to-same-site-dont-auto-prettify ...
user213963
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Allow https links as valid when adding a new answer to Stack Exchange section [closed]
When you go to your profile and want to add a link to an answer on Stack Exchange you can paste a custom URL to an answer. If that starts with https you get the message that this does not link to ...
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