Title: External images changing to https
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# External images changing to https

 *  [some121](https://wordpress.org/support/users/some121/)
 * (@some121)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/external-images-changing-to-https/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m recently working on a blog which requires me to include many images from 
   external URLs instead of hosting them on the server. Many of these images are
   not available on https, so I need to insert http links of them. But when I click
   on ‘Save draft’ or ‘Preview’, the plugin changes the URLs to https. The problem
   is, the images are not available on the external servers as https. So I get a
   404 for the image and as a result, it doesn’t load.
 * I tried various settings but I was not able to have the desired result without
   unchecking the “Always use HTTPS while in the admin panel. This setting is identical
   to FORCE_SSL_ADMIN.” option.
 * I tried looking around within the plugin code to see if I could find a way to
   fix this myself, so I changed a line in the “Blogdir\wp-content\plugins\wordpress-
   https\lib\WordPressHTTPS.php” file, line no. 56. I removed the image formats ‘
   jpg’, ‘jpeg’, ‘png’, ‘gif’ from the $_file_extensions variable. This seems to
   work.
 * I just want to make sure if this will affect anything else on my site, as I have
   not had the chance to go through the entire working of the code.
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-https/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-https/)

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## Tags

 * ["external images"](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/external-images/)
 * [external](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/external/)
 * [HTTPS](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/https/)
 * [images](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/images/)
 * [jpg](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/jpg/)

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 * Last reply from: [some121](https://wordpress.org/support/users/some121/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/external-images-changing-to-https/)
 * Status: not resolved