Title: How to prevent external links from https
Last modified: October 5, 2016

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# How to prevent external links from https

 *  Resolved [jacoblett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jacoblett/)
 * (@jacoblett)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-prevent-external-links-from-https/)
 * Is it possible to prevent external links within the post/page content from having
   http converted to https?
 * When you click on external links in chrome it displays a privacy error message.
   [https://bootstrapcreative.com/resources/web-design-development-bookmarks/](https://bootstrapcreative.com/resources/web-design-development-bookmarks/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Rogier Lankhorst](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rogierlankhorst/)
 * (@rogierlankhorst)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-prevent-external-links-from-https/#post-8255900)
 * The mixed content fixer is designed not to change external links to https. The
   problem here is that you have used //domain.com for your links, instead of [http://domain.com](http://domain.com)
 * If you use only //, the browser will load that link over the protocol it is currently
   on. So that explains why your links don’t work. If you’re on https, the browser
   will load that link over https.
 * This is great for images and stylesheets: they will load over the correct protocol
   whatever you do. It is not very useful if you want the link to stay http, whatever
   the protocol.
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 10 months ago by [Rogier Lankhorst](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rogierlankhorst/).
 *  Thread Starter [jacoblett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jacoblett/)
 * (@jacoblett)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-prevent-external-links-from-https/#post-8258796)
 * Hi Rogier, Thank you for your reply. I just checked the links and they have http://
   [http://puu.sh/rzCiC/4b6afb1112.png](http://puu.sh/rzCiC/4b6afb1112.png)
 * I just searched my page source for <!– Really Simple SSL mixed content fixer 
   active –> and could not find this. I cleared my page cache Using W3 Total cache.
   Is there a way to manually add this snippet to footer.php?
 * Jacob
 *  Plugin Contributor [Rogier Lankhorst](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rogierlankhorst/)
 * (@rogierlankhorst)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-prevent-external-links-from-https/#post-8258896)
 * Hi Jacob,
 * When I look at the html for the link to, for example, CSS3 please, I see href
   =”//. Is it possible some other plugin is converting links?
 * If you have minification active, the mixed content fixer comment might get removed.
   It’s not possible to add it manually. But as far as I can see, you don’t have
   any mixed content, so I think the mixed content fixer is active. You only have
   to find out what is causing those links to become // links. The mixed content
   fixer in Really Simple SSL does not do this.
 * You can verify this by deactivating the mixed content fixer in the settings.
 * Rogier
 *  Thread Starter [jacoblett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jacoblett/)
 * (@jacoblett)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-prevent-external-links-from-https/#post-8276401)
 * Figured it out. It was a plugin causing the issue. Thank you for your support.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Rogier Lankhorst](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rogierlankhorst/)
 * (@rogierlankhorst)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-prevent-external-links-from-https/#post-8276684)
 * Great! Thanks for the update.

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 * Last reply from: [Rogier Lankhorst](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rogierlankhorst/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-prevent-external-links-from-https/#post-8276684)
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