Share counts problem

After some digging around in the code of this plugin, I’ve found the issue. I think it’s fair to share it here with you all. Cause this plugin with the networks add-on doesn’t work optimal for websites which use the https protocol. At least, not right now. They have to fix the issue first.

Attached my findings and the response from the Mashshare support team.

My message to them:

I went through your code and found this part in the mashsharer/includes folder: file ‘mashengine.php’. This file contains the code for counting the shares.
I’ve noticed you only use the http scheme check for the platforms other than Facebook and Twitter.
That seems to be it. The problem of not counting the shares properly.

This is the code I’m talking about:
$RollingCurlX->addRequest( “https://www.linkedin.com/countserv/count/share?format=json&url=” . $this->http_scheme_url, $post_data, array($this, ‘getCount’), array(‘linkedin’), $headers );
$RollingCurlX->addRequest( “http://www.stumbleupon.com/services/1.01/badge.getinfo?url=” . $this->http_scheme_url, $post_data, array($this, ‘getCount’), array(‘stumbleupon’), $headers );
$RollingCurlX->addRequest( “https://plusone.google.com/_/+1/fastbutton?url=” . $this->http_scheme_url, $post_data, array($this, ‘getCount’), array(‘google’), $headers );
$RollingCurlX->addRequest( “http://api.pinterest.com/v1/urls/count.json?url=” . $this->http_scheme_url, $post_data, array($this, ‘getCount’), array(‘pinterest’), $headers );
$RollingCurlX->addRequest( “https://api.bufferapp.com/1/links/shares.json?url=” . $this->http_scheme_url, $post_data, array($this, ‘getCount’), array(‘buffer’), $headers );
$RollingCurlX->addRequest( “https://vk.com/share.php?act=count&index=1&url=” . $this->http_scheme_url, $post_data, array($this, ‘getCount’), array(‘vk’), $headers );

Linkedin works, cause they automatically turn the http scheme into https. But the others don’t.
So I guess you should fix this in your plugin. That Google, Pinterest, Stumbleupon, Buffer, VK also check the https scheme.
Then I get my share counts.

And I’m curious: I couldn’t find the other platform checks (reddit, Tumblr etc.). Aren’t those checked?

Love to hear from you.

Their response:

Thank you for the details. Yes you’re right. Before this didn’t matter except for Facebook and Twitter. It seems other networks are treating SSL and non-SSL pages separately. We’ll investigate this and fix it with next updates.