Title: Feed validation fails due to HTTPS
Last modified: September 13, 2016

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# Feed validation fails due to HTTPS

 *  Resolved [frankdugan3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frankdugan3/)
 * (@frankdugan3)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-validation-fails-due-to-https/)
 * I’m working on a site that uses HTTPS, and the podcast feed uses HTTPS for all
   of the file URLs, which causes validation to fail: [https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforgingploughshares.org%2Ffeed%2Fpodcast](https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforgingploughshares.org%2Ffeed%2Fpodcast)
 * Is there a workaround?

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 *  [status4](https://wordpress.org/support/users/status4/)
 * (@status4)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-validation-fails-due-to-https/#post-8202378)
 * Hey Frank, did you solved this? Facing the same issue at the moment.
 *  Thread Starter [frankdugan3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frankdugan3/)
 * (@frankdugan3)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-validation-fails-due-to-https/#post-8204410)
 * I managed to work around the issue by setting the default site URL to “[http://[…%5D&#8221](http://[…%5D&#8221);
   and removing the .htaccess rule that redirected to https. The plugin basically
   uses the default site URL, so whatever you set there will be prepended to all
   the embedded links. I still have https forced for admin.
 * Ideally, the site should be https by default, and the podcasts http. I have yet
   to figure out how to get that to work without hacking up the plugin.

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 * Last reply from: [frankdugan3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frankdugan3/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-validation-fails-due-to-https/#post-8204410)
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