All links on smugmug are hard coded http

tsk1979

I prefer to surf https always.
I see https://www.smugmug.com opens fine.
Even https://tanveer.smugmug.com opens fine.
Infact any smugmug link I open with https instead of http opens fine.
The problem is that when I link on anything on the page, it defaults to http.
The links are hard coded.
So if I go to communities, the link has the hard coded path http://www.smugmug.com/communities instead of communities/ relative path


Normall on most sits like vbull etc., links are relative, so if you are https, you stay https, but in smugmug the links are hard coded.
Can this be fixed please

jfriend

tsk1979 wrote:

I prefer to surf https always.
I see https://www.smugmug.com opens fine.
Even https://tanveer.smugmug.com opens fine.
Infact any smugmug link I open with https instead of http opens fine.
The problem is that when I link on anything on the page, it defaults to http.
The links are hard coded.
So if I go to communities, the link has the hard coded path http://www.smugmug.com/communities instead of communities/ relative path


Normall on most sits like vbull etc., links are relative, so if you are https, you stay https, but in smugmug the links are hard coded.
Can this be fixed please

Why do you want to surf public web sites on https? There is no content to protect. It's way, way slower for both you and for Smugmug. The images you see can't be cached locally the same way http things can which is just going to make your browsing experience lots, lots slower. Further, it drives a lot more load on the server end (which may be why Smugmug doesn't support it) because there's crypto involved in every browser request (and a typical photo page might have 50 browser requests in it).

You will find that Smugmug also uses multiple domains as part of giving you your own domain and as part of their edge caching to improve performance and you can't use relative links to different domains.

Yes, it makes sense to use https for specific things like password entry or shopping cart stuff where the data should be encrypted for security reasons, but why do it for for regular public content?

tsk1979

Yup you are right.
Actually on some sites, password entry does not default to https, you have to manually change to https. Does password entry default to https in smugmug always?

jfriend

tsk1979 wrote:

Yup you are right.
Actually on some sites, password entry does not default to https, you have to manually change to https. Does password entry default to https in smugmug always?

I don't believe password entry does go to https by default. The shopping cart does go to https.

tsk1979

I guess then I will do it for password entry page manually! Thanks

Andy

Hi, I'm sorry this is affecting you so
We didn't design the site to be surfed using https, sorry.

tsk1979

Andy wrote:

Hi, I'm sorry this is affecting you so
We didn't design the site to be surfed using https, sorry.

No problem. Actually I have no problems surfing site by http. All we need is that password entry page should default to https.

mbrady

tsk1979 wrote:

No problem. Actually I have no problems surfing site by http. All we need is that password entry page should default to https.

Which password page do you mean? When you click the login link, you go to this https URL:
https://secure.smugmug.com/login.mg?goTo=http://www.smugmug.com/

jfriend

mbrady wrote:

Which password page do you mean? When you click the login link, you go to this https URL:
https://secure.smugmug.com/login.mg?goTo=http://www.smugmug.com/

Gallery passwords, site passwords.