Hello, it doesn’t link to an external website. When you add an SSL certificate your website changes to https://, so this plugin forces your website to redirect to https.
Read more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTPS
All you need now is an SSL certificate, you can ask your host about Let’s Encrypt (which is free) or a commercial licence.
Hi,
maybe I wasn´t clear enough. We have a certificate. All is working with internal linking. No mixed content and so on. But, if an author writes an article about, for example, the Geneva Autoshow and puts in the external link to their website with http – your plugin makes a https link out of it.
Mikkel
I have hardcoded Links in the footer to external Websites. These are Partners which pay for the Link – I put in http://website.com – target – blank and so on (hardcoded in Footer) – your Plugin makes a https://website.com link out of it. So the User is coming to an insecure not reachable Website. I know, that they should have a redirect “installed”… but a lot of just don´t…
Mikkel
Hi there @mikkelcrunch! You are right, there is a bug that forces all external links to https too! Would you like to test a fix we made, before pushing it to production?
Hi Kostas,
I´m really looking forward to test a fix. I deinstalled your Plugin and installed Really Simple SSL – and it still changes all my Links – its really really not good… So yes please – tell me how I can test it!!!
Many Thanks
Mikkel
Is this something from your Plugin?
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on [OR]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} https
RewriteRule .* - [E=WPR_SSL:-https]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip
RewriteRule .* - [E=WPR_ENC:_gzip]
Is this causing the SSL rewrite? (is in the htaccess) file
Greetz
Mikkel
Hello, sorry for the late response, we are trying to reproduce it here (though we reproduced it but can’t do it again. That’s why I haven’t sent you the fix.
The plugin doesn’t add or change anything in htaccess so this is definitely not from us. And, yes it’s probably what causes the https in external links.
Ok I will try fixing the htaccess… Thanks anyway for your answers!
Hi, any chance this was caused by your htaccess?
Hi,
I can confirm that the same issue is happening on our wordpress aswell 🙂
Any update on the new version you mentioned earlier?
Thank you!
