I want to make a Wordpress site fully HTTPS Everywhere - but have a number of plugins installed, do I need to make sure that all my external links use href https too?
Only things you have on the site - like images from third party sites etc need to be https. Like Instagram pictures for example. If you are simply linking out to another site then that does not matter. If you use chrome you will see a green padlock if everything is working properly.
I like that Flash CC 2015 Canvas uses CreateJS, however it's not working in doubleclick as the CDN serving the .js files is being served http and doubleclick needs it to be served as https.
Is create JS aware of this and do they have updated CDN links that we can use when uploading html5 creative to doubleclick, sizemek or other ad networks?
Asset is not SSL-compliant. The following resources are
non-compliant: http://code.createjs.com/easeljs-0.8.1.min.js
http://code.createjs.com/tweenjs-0.6.1.min.js
Did you try removing the scheme http? All should be left is //code.createjs.com/easeljs-0.8.1.min.js. I got a similar complaint.
The security trick is to make all the http:// calls into https://. Just add the s.
Doubleclick now hosts CreateJS on their own CDN: https://support.google.com/richmedia/answer/6307288
Due to the irruption of RTB and Big Ad inventories, non secure protocol url are not allowed.
So, as said you could do both: // or http://
Also, for AdServers, many of them do not accept Folder structure. CreateJS creates an "image" folder for the assets, It is better if you have every asset at root level.
I have a WordPress site that is doing a few weird things, and I believe it is because it is being cached. I changed the contents of a CSS stylesheet file, and the change took around 10 minutes before it appeared live.
I can't however find any caching mechanism setup. I've looked through cPanel and can't see anything setup there. The IP of the site resolves to the IP that cPanel is showing.
I've looked for plugins in WordPress and can't see any caching plugins (although if it was a caching plugin, would accessing a stylesheet be cached?).
Any tips on how I can see if the page is being cached on the server or by a plugin?
Put a JavaScript bug on the page which crafts a random URL and requests it. Compare the number of page requests to random URL requests. But there are lots of scenarios where a browser can cache a page in the absence of caching information.
If your website is behind Cloud Flare network or such, this is normal behavior.
Try running next command (Windows Command prompt/Linux terminal):
ping www.yoursite.com
and visit resolved IP address in browser - this may tell you if you are behind caching network.
Take a look at this article: http://www.mobify.com/blog/beginners-guide-to-http-cache-headers/
I've got some automatic emails that are sent out upon signup completion for my site.
Until recently, they worked fine. Now Google's new system is rewriting the images and storing them in it's cache (supposedly)
However, Google's new rewriting of my image links are completely breaking them, giving a 500 error and a broken link image.
Lets say my normal image url is:
http://www.mysite.com/images/pic1.jpg
Google is rewriting this to:
https://ci5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/vI79kajdUGm6Wk-fjyicDLjZbCB1w9NfkoZ-zQFOB2OpJ1ILmSvfvHmE56r72us5mIuIXCFiO3V8rgkZOjfhghTH0R07BbcQy5g=s0-d-e1-ft#http://www.mysite.com/images/pic1.jpg
However, there is nothing at that URL.
So, either there is something wrong with the links that are being created by Google or the images are just not being uploaded to the googleusercontent server, but I have no idea how to solve the issue.
Im using PHP, the phpmailer library and a Ubuntu server on Amazon EC2, but Im not sure that is related to the issue.
I think I have figured out the GoogleImageProxy issue.
This is something related to CACHING concept. suppose, you have recently deployed your PHP code on your server but you forgot to upload images. you tested once with your email logic. your system generated an HTML email. When this email will hit the Gmail server GoogleImageProxy will try to fetch and store the images from your site on its own proxy server. while fetching the images, GoogleImageProxy found some 404 statuses against your missing images and 403 against some protected images. GoogleImagesProxy has stored these statuses into its own proxy server.
Now tried to open your email, and you noticed some 404 statuses against your images. This is something understandable. You immediately realized that you forgot to upload some images, so you uploaded them to your server. and also you have fixed some permissions against protected images.
You are all done now. Now you try to run your PHP-email script once again. As a result, you receive another email in your Gmail or Hotmail inbox. you had fixed all the issues with your images. Now the images must be displayed in your email content. but you are still unable to see the images.
Ah, possibly you forgot to clear your browser's cache. Clear your browser's cache and load the Gmail or Hotmail page once again. But the result will be still the same. Try to apply dozens of fixes/patches and try to run your PHP-email script a thousand times. But the result will be still the same. No improvement.
THE REAL PROBLEM
What the hell is going on? Let me explain it to you. Go to your access log and try to find requests from GoogleImageProxy. You'll be surprised to see that there will be only 2 or 3 three requests from GoogleImageProxy depending on the number of different images used in your email. GoogleImageProxy never tried to fetch images Even after you have fixed the issues with your images by uploading missing images and setting permissions for protected images. Why? Clearing your browser's cache has no impact. GoogleImageProxy will never fetch the fresh images even for your newer email because the images are now cached into GoogleImageProxy along with their last status code and not cached in your own browser.
GoogleImageProxy has set its own expiry date for the images. I think one month. so now the fresh copy of images will be fetched after the expiry date. I mean after one month. You can not force GoogleImageProxy to fetch the images. But it is important for you to display images in your email. What can be the solution?
THE SOLUTION
Following is the only way to force GoogleImageProxy to fetch your images
Rename your images to something else with png, jpg, or gif extensions
only.
Don't use any kind of query string in your image URL like ?t=34343
your image must include png, jpg, or gif as an extension.
your image URL must be mapped onto your image directly.
If you need to use some proxy URL for your protected images then your response must include the proper header like
Content-Type: image/jpeg
File extension and content-type header must match
Status-code must be 200 instead of 403, 500, etc
IMPORTANT NOTE
Try to repeat the whole process for every run of PHP-email script. because every time GoogleImageProxy will cache your images and you'll have to repeat the same process for every new try.
Hopefully this will fix the issue for most of the people.
Based on your example, it looks like you are using traditional extensions (.jpg, .png, .gif). Some folks on this thread, describing the same issues you are facing, have stated that using those extensions solves the problem.
Other possible solutions:
Image links broken in Gmail because of google's Image proxy
Doubtful, but maybe a cookie problem
Image URL proxy whitelist setting - this has turned out to be the solution for a few users who are under Google Apps. Via Gmail is not showing image when image url is getting appended with https://ci4.googleusercontent.com/proxy
I was having a similar issue, but it was caused by the length of the URL. Google generates the following URL when caching an image from gmail:
https://ci4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/[hash]#[url])
The hash generated is based on the URL of the image, but the size will vary based on characters used. I ran several tests with different sized URLs, and found the cached image would fail to load consistently (400/Invalid Request) if the hash exceeds 2076 characters in length (close to 2048 bytes + meta? not sure).
Again, the image URL could generate a hash that exceeds this many characters at ~1000 special characters, or 1500+ simple characters. If the hash exceeds 2076 characters in length, the request fails.
I realize this is an old post, but hopefully this helps other devs scouring Google
I know this is an old question but the same thing happened to me. When I checked my access logs this is what I found -
www.example.ca 66.249.85.50 - - [10/Apr/2014:17:57:18 -0400] "GET /newsletters/Apr10_2014/cad/cad2.jpg HTTP/1.1" 403 457 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021910 Firefox/3.0.7 (via ggpht.com GoogleImageProxy)"
You can see that my server was blocking the GOOGLEIMAGEPROXY giving it a 403 Forbidden reply. I decided to check my .htaccess and sure enough I was blocking the term PROXY. After removing the term, the images appear just fine now on Gmail. Hope that helps.
I just tried ,
after replacing the image (without changing image name)
Open email in new browser , it shows new image
Ctrl+f5 (forces a cache refresh) in the chrome (my default browser) ,
also shows new image
use .png or .jpg
otherwise image will not render
url add auto
https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/jTpYlM6RUv7Wi8Hxjha4fzExKFy9mjyh133MKKfo3FuV3toLToG6zJcA0IAdIMEW75pY6pkEd2aOSVhWIn0A82q-24YaAd-_k00wIMHwIuUBiy9vEGrMpAW73HaHQmViuESP7A=s0-d-e1-ft#
HTTPS image locations do cache. Several of our production environments have no problems with gmail proxying image locations using a HTTPS uri. I could see gmail ignoring your content if the SSL certificate is invalid in some way.
Check that the content-type returned for the image file by your server is correct.
You can check this using Fiddler.
In my case the size of file was the problem, it was 22 Mb (i know right?), and after we reduced the size everything started working like a charm.
Check file size and if it's too big, compress it.
I know this is an old question but I've met this problem. In my case images are stored at Google Cloud Storage. What is interesting is that link
https://storage.cloud.google.com/{bla_bla}/logo.png
returns 307 (temporary redirect) and Location header containing something like
https://{xxx}-apidata.googleusercontent.com/{bla-bla_bla}/logo.png?{zzz}
Seems like GoogleImageProxy does not process 307 correctly
I have a perfect solution of this problem, which worked for me if you are using PHPMailer then you just have to add another option in PHPMailer for attaching image like this
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->AddEmbeddedImage('../absolutepath/image/image.jpg', 'logoimg', '../absolutepath/image/image.jpg');
Here we have given absolute path of image and give it a name call 'logoimg' or whatever you want.
Now you can add this logoimg to wherever in your HTML Body like this
$mail->Body = "
<h1>Test of PHPMailer html body with image</h1>
<p>This is a test picture: <img src=\"cid:logoimg\" /></p>";
$mail->send();
That's All.
I had this issue when I was sending gifs. I found that the file size matters to Googles Proxy server. I suggest making the files as small as possible and see if that works. You can use your Gmail account and add a photo from a URL to test. If the gif shows up when you are composing your email it will be receivable.
happy coding.
Is it working from Outook/hotmail? It should then we can isolate it as google issue. In your case it is not.
Size of the image can be a problem. Try to reduce it and see
www.mysite.com this site might be accessible from your system. But
is it also accessible from google server?
Try changing extension.. this is the trick: You might have tried several things but it would still fetch from cache(which invalidates your efforts) but when the extension changes, it fetches again and all the work you did before comes into play and if it works you might think it is the 'extension' that did the trick!! (like many of those who speaks about extensions)
In my case of running into this issue, the problem was that accidentally the path to the image in the email template had triple slashes in the URL, e.g. https:///content.example.org/image.png. This was hard to spot, and while it was working in other email clients who could successfully resolve the URL, Google's image proxy wasn't able to handle it and resulted in a 404 for the proxied image address.
It's March 6 and you've probably already figured this out, but thought I'd chime in to help others. I discovered that JPGs don't work in gmail. The PNG format works great. Sorry I can't explain why, but sometimes it's better not to ask why. Use PNG!
We are grabbing our feed at feedburner by using the jquery jGFeed plugin.
this works great until the moment our users are on a httpS:// page.
When we try to load the feed on that page the user gets the message that there is mixed conteent, protected and unprotected on the page.
A solution would be to load the feed on https, but google doesn't allow that, the certificate isn't working.
$.jGFeed('httpS://feeds.feedburner.com/xxx')
Does anyone know a workaround for this. The way it functions now, we simply cannot server the feed in our pages when on httpS
At this time Feedburner does not offer feeds over SSL (https scheme). The message that you're getting regarding mixed content is by design; in fact, any and all content that is not being loaded from a secured connection will trigger that message, so making sure that all content is loaded over SSL is really your only alternative to avoid that popup.
As I mentioned, Feedburner doesn't offer feeds over SSL, so realistically you'll need to look into porting your feed to another service that DOES offer feeds over SSL. Keep in mind what I said above, however, with respect to your feed's content as well. If you have any embedded content that is not delivered via SSL then that content will also trigger the popup that you're trying to avoid.
This comes up from time to time with other services that don't have an SSL cert (Twitter's API is a bit of a mess that way too.) Brian's comment is correct about the nature of the message, so you've got a few options:
If this is on your server, and the core data is on your server too, then you've got end to end SSL capabilities; just point jGFeed to the local RSS feed that FeedBurner's already importing.
Code up a proxy on your server to marshall the call to Feedburner and return the response over SSL.
Find another feed service that supports SSL, and either pass it the original feed or the Feedburner one.
i have started using WordPress paid theme Schema for my several blogs. In general, it is a nice theme, fast and SEO friendly. However, since my blogs are all on HTTPS, then I noticed that if I had a widget of (Google Feedburner) in the sitebar. The chrome will show a security error for any secure page with an insecure form call on the page.
To fix this, it is really simple,
you would just need to change the file widget-subscribe.php located at /wp-content/themes/schema/functions/ and replace all “http://feedburner.google.com” to “https://feedburner.google.com”.
Save the file, and clear the cache, then your browser will show a green padlock.
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