Are you routing href request from within my TablePress cell through your server?

  • Resolved Orrin

    (@orrinsmith)


    6 years ago

    It appears to me that when I place an href in a TablePress cell, that TablePress is possibly routing my link through some other host server. Is that correct? And, if so, why would you do that? I employ a CDN network for performance purposes, and such extra routing defeats that purpose.

    I can’t say that I know exactly what is happening, but this provisional conclusion results from the following analysis.

    WP and all of my plugins are up-to-date. And I have disabled many plugins to test my issue, to no avail.

    I have numerous pdfs in my image library. They are for viewer printing, and I have found it very attractive and useful to place links to them in a tablepress table cell (reference the attached link, and go to the bottom of the page).

    I employ a CDN network. With the CDN network enabled, I experience the below described issue. If the CDN network is disabled, the issue does not arise. Furthermore, if I place normal href links on a page, or if I place them in a simple HTML table on a page, the issue also does not arise, whether the CDN network is enabled or disabled. Whether I use the insert link or insert image makes no difference, and the css for the link title also makes no difference. I have tested all of that.

    I test from a location that is reasonably near to my host server, but your system is probably far away. Even though is normal and correct for a far away viewer to see the CDN url (because they are accessing through the CDN network), this should not be occurring for me, here.

    So, here is the issue: When the href link is accessed through the tablepress table, and the CDN is enabled, the url that is displayed in my browser is the CDN url, not my own. I do not think that this should happen. And, presently, the only explanation that I can arrive at is as described above. I hope that it is something different, and better.

    Do you have some understanding to share with me regarding this issue?

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  • Plugin Author Tobias B?thge

    (@tobiasbg)

    Hi,

    thanks for your question, and sorry for the trouble.

    No, TablePress is not routing any links through any other server, not its own and not any other external servers. That would in fact be very weird and probably against every data protection and privacy regulation.

    Now, from what you describe, it could be possible that your CDN plugin simply can not pick up the content that is returned from a Shortcode (like that [table ... /] Shortcode). However, you are also saying that your are seeing the CDN URL in the table, which to be sounds like the correct behavior? Shouldn’t everybody be using the CDN URLs and the CDN then decides which actual server (the one closest to the visitor) is used?

    One thing that might be influencing this is the internal TablePress cache. You could maybe try turning that off by using a modified Shortcode on the page:

    [table id=rsf cache_table_output=false /]

    Regards,
    Tobias

    Thread Starter Orrin

    (@orrinsmith)

    Well, bewitched, bothered, and bewildered! More than a day’s worth of work (on my part) expended to get this education! Isn’t that the way that it always is?

    And, as you probably do infer, I was not, in any manner, trying accuse you of being weird. I just couldn’t understand this issue.

    Yes, you are correct. Even my own pdf image requests should be routed through the CDN network. And now, I know what is happening.

    When I click a link to my own pdf image, from within a WordPress page that open in edit mode, or from its corresponding preview page, whether or not I have updated the page, then my browser displays my own url in the browser url window.

    Otherwise, whether I am logged in or not, if I click the link from an updated page, in non-edit mode, my browser displays the CDN url in the browser window.

    And that now does all seems to be correct and understandable.

    Thank you for your efforts. I love your TablePress tables!

    Regards,
    Orrin

    Plugin Author Tobias B?thge

    (@tobiasbg)

    Hi,

    no problem, you are very welcome! ?? Good to hear that this helped!

    Best wishes,
    Tobias

    P.S.: In case you haven’t, please rate TablePress here in the plugin directory. Thanks!

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