Umtali and myself, and some original forumites, have had an issue with their images not being displayed for some time for visitors.
My sig is an example...
http://www.sanparks.org/forums/viewtopic.php?&t=93948
There have been issues with image/filesharing sites (like photobucket, flikr etc) which were previously free
but now force contributors to pay a fee to allow images to be shared on sites like the SanParks forums.
So like U & I we used our own webserver to offer pictures to SanParks websites and others. (interproj.org).
We provided images using http://interproj.org/images/knp/2016/hibus.jpg
rather than https://interproj.org/images/knp/2016/hibus.jpg as we might do now.
I have changed our webserver so it automatically refreshes with https: if an http: request arrives
They were setup before SanParks moved to a 'fully secure server'
using https.We and others (?) were/are impacted as SanParks then enforced secure websites (https:) throughout.
Later on browsers (like Opera, Edge, Firefox) defaulted to disabling insecure content (http:) inside a secure (https:) site:
Whilst it is possible to tweak your personal browser settings to allow 'mixed content (http within an https page, like SanParks) BUT that doesn't allow OTHERS to see your images in line (you have to right click and 'view image').
And also websites, like our own, can tweak incoming http > https that doesn't completely solve the problem.
So a bummer for our Travel tales with thousands of views
Most interesting posts with images, that are viewed by the public, are Travel Tales. They are viewed via Google links etc.
BUT THEY ARE LOCKED FOR THE CONTRIBUTOR
Our Travel tales are locked so we cannot tweak the image links from http:// to https://, and probably cannot afford the time to upload a significant number of replacement images into the SanParks website even if they were unlocked
(the ONLY recommended solution to this problem on the Forum)
Is it possible for the moderators or SanParks Gurus to temporarily, unlock a set of Travel Tales (say for two user id's)
or even run a trivial SQL database command line that converts the string (e.g. http://interproj > https://interproj) within just in those posts?
There was a PHPBB plug-in that would allow such on-the-fly replacemnts for specific destiunation domains, like interproj.org, on the fly but it was discouraged by the PHPBB team
Do other forumites have this problem with[ b]personally hosted websites [/b]- not the imaging sharing websites ?
