Title: photon and https URLs Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # photon and https URLs * Resolved [Will Norris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willnorris/) * (@willnorris) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/photon-and-https-urls/) * Any particular reason Photon is limited to http URLs on port 80? I redirect all traffic [to https](https://willnorris.com/2012/12/all-https-all-the-time). When I manually remove the port and scheme checks from the jetpack plugin, photon [works just fine](https://i1.wp.com/willnorris.com/content/uploads/2012/12/https-willnorris-com.png). So why have the seemingly artificial limitation? Is it just because the photon API, as currently designed, doesn’t have a place to specify the scheme or port? * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jetpack/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jetpack/) Viewing 12 replies - 1 through 12 (of 12 total) * Plugin Author [Jeremy Herve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeherve/) * (@jeherve) * Jetpack Mechanic 🚀 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/photon-and-https-urls/#post-3449028) * You’re correct, at the moment Photon is only able to resize and serve images from servers that listen on port 80. That may change in the future as we work on improving the service, but we currently cannot serve images if you use HTTPS on your site. * You can read more about Photon here: [http://jetpack.me/support/photon/](http://jetpack.me/support/photon/) * Thread Starter [Will Norris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willnorris/) * (@willnorris) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/photon-and-https-urls/#post-3449068) * But that’s actually my point… you *can* serve images even if my site uses HTTPS. I’m doing it today. I guess it only works because I redirect http traffic to https, and photon is simply following that redirect. If someone didn’t have such a redirect in place, then you’re absolutely right that it wouldn’t work. * So allow me to rephrase in the form of a question… would it be possible to add a filter that allows site owners to turn off the [strict https checking](http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jetpack/trunk/class.photon.php#L441)? * Plugin Author [Jeremy Herve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeherve/) * (@jeherve) * Jetpack Mechanic 🚀 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/photon-and-https-urls/#post-3449094) * Sorry for the misunderstanding. You’re absolutely right, Photon will serve images over HTTPS, but it can’t resize images unless they’re available over HTTP. If you were to configure your server to only allow images over HTTPS, Photon wouldn’t work. * But as long as you set your site to use HTTPS, and if your images are available over HTTP as well, everything will work properly. Photon checks for [`is_ssl()`](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_ssl), and will write its URLs to use HTTPS if you want to. * You can have a look at the code here for more information: [http://code.trac.wordpress.org/browser/photon](http://code.trac.wordpress.org/browser/photon) * Thread Starter [Will Norris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willnorris/) * (@willnorris) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/photon-and-https-urls/#post-3449097) * actually photon **will** resize photos from https URLs. to wit: * original photo: [http://willnorris.com/content/uploads/2012/12/pocket-share-to-google.png](http://willnorris.com/content/uploads/2012/12/pocket-share-to-google.png)( this will redirect to the same URL with https) photo photo: [https://i0.wp.com/willnorris.com/content/uploads/2012/12/pocket-share-to-google.png?resize=100,100](https://i0.wp.com/willnorris.com/content/uploads/2012/12/pocket-share-to-google.png?resize=100,100) * I’ve opened a trac ticket with a patch that shows exactly what I’m proposing: [http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1653](http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1653) * Thanks. * Thread Starter [Will Norris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willnorris/) * (@willnorris) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/photon-and-https-urls/#post-3449160) * I hadn’t heard anything more on this thread or on the trac ticket, so just wanted to ping this and see what you thought of the patch. * Plugin Author [Jeremy Herve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeherve/) * (@jeherve) * Jetpack Mechanic 🚀 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/photon-and-https-urls/#post-3449166) * We didn’t forget you! We will have a look at the patch, and we’ll reply there. * [raphaelsuzuki](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raphaa00/) * (@raphaa00) * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/photon-and-https-urls/#post-3449215) * Any news on this feature? * Would really be helpful with ecommerce websites. * Plugin Author [Jeremy Herve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeherve/) * (@jeherve) * Jetpack Mechanic 🚀 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/photon-and-https-urls/#post-3449228) * We’ve just committed Will’s patch, and the fix will be included in the next Jetpack release. [http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/757167](http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/757167) * You will then be able to use the `jetpack_photon_bail_on_https` filter to enable Photon for HTTPS URLs. * Thread Starter [Will Norris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willnorris/) * (@willnorris) * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/photon-and-https-urls/#post-3449229) * Thanks Jeremy, glad to see this in! One comment though is that the name of the filter implies the opposite of what it is doing. It says “bail on https”, implying that setting this to true would make it bail on https. That would be a wrong assumption though, since setting it to true actually means that it *won’t* bail on https. * And technically, it’s not bailing or not bailing based on whether the link is“ https”, it’s bailing or not based on whether it is anything other than “http”. In practice, that distinction is probably not important, but just pointing it out. * So maybe a filter name along the lines of “jetpack_photo_allow_https” or something similar would be clearer? * In any event, thanks for putting this in. 🙂 * Plugin Author [Jeremy Herve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeherve/) * (@jeherve) * Jetpack Mechanic 🚀 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/photon-and-https-urls/#post-3449230) * Oh yes indeed. We’ll change that. I’ll post a link to the changeset once it’s done. * Plugin Author [Jeremy Herve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeherve/) * (@jeherve) * Jetpack Mechanic 🚀 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/photon-and-https-urls/#post-3449231) * We just committed [r759289-plugins](http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/759289). * The filter is now `jetpack_photon_reject_https`. * Thread Starter [Will Norris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willnorris/) * (@willnorris) * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/photon-and-https-urls/#post-3449232) * looks great, thanks! 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