Http links when running a https site

It’s a bit of both, there have been a couple of threads on this problem. I can provide a couple of enhancements to change the image links and the product links.

I don’t think you can get rid of all the https:// urls though, so you will always have some errors.

Let me know if you want me to develop the enhancements,

Paul

I think you are right, some links can be changed to https, but not all. For example

https://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41LXbuuMjwL.jpg

Prompts the user because the hostname on the certificate does not match the url. But some links works fine.

It would be great to have some way to force a specific link to switch blindly to https, something like

[amazon asin=12345678 forceHttps=true]

Then every existing link is untouched and it is the link creators responsibility to check if the link works. Having a global property is too risky in my opinion. But if you know of certain link types that always works with https then it would be great to have a global property for just those types, e.g. “Force https for add to cart links”.

Maybe it should not be forceHttps at all but “Match URL property” setting, so if one has a site with mixed http / https content the links would match

What are you thoughts on the above?

/Poul

I bypassed the problem by editing the templates and forcing https on my troublesome links

how did you solve it ? i have the same issue (even after changing template link into https)

I only had the problems with my “Add to cart” links, so I just changed the “Add to cart” template, the https:// to https:// and that just worked fine for me. It was a while ago, so now I use this template where I point to locally downloaded images of the buy buttons:

<form method=”GET” action=”https://www.amazon.%TLD%/gp/aws/cart/add.html&#8221; style=”display:inline”>
<input type=”hidden” name=”AssociateTag” value=”%TAG%”/>
<input type=”hidden” name=”SubscriptionId” value=”%PUB_KEY%”/>
<input type=”hidden” name=”ASIN.1″ value=”%ASIN%”/>
<input type=”hidden” name=”Quantity.1″ value=”1″/>
<input type=”image” name=”add” value=”Buy from Amazon.%TLD%” border=”0″ alt=”Buy from Amazon.%TLD%” src=”//cdn.odd-one-out.serek.eu/wp-custom/amazon/%MPLACE_ID%/buy-from-tan.gif”>
</form>

Notice the last src=”// line which used https if the rest of the site runs https. Not sure what the standard template does here

Hi, I am trying to run on https, too. Have you implemented the mentioned change?

i couldn’t get it to work. but it was only for one item, so i copied the image locally and linked to amazon myself

I got it to work by making a own plugin fork, I replaced the image URL
https://ecx.images-amazon.com/

with

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/

In every AWS query.