Title: plugin references insecure link
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# plugin references insecure link

 *  [David Radovanovic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dpaule/)
 * (@dpaule)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-references-insecure-link/)
 * [https://www.davidminch.com/new-york-architect-timeline/](https://www.davidminch.com/new-york-architect-timeline/)
 * I’ve set to “Capture” mode and still errors exist. Thought about moving all related
   files to my own server though that seems a bit clumsy. Any ideas? Thanks!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/ssl-insecure-content-fixer/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ssl-insecure-content-fixer/)

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 *  Plugin Author [webaware](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webaware/)
 * (@webaware)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-references-insecure-link/#post-6600740)
 * G’day David,
 * The problems are twofold, and come from the Simile Timeline library.
 * First, your site is loading scripts from an MIT website that has an invalid SSL
   certificate:
 * [https://simile.mit.edu/ajax/api/simile-ajax-api.js](https://simile.mit.edu/ajax/api/simile-ajax-api.js)
   
   cert for: *.simile-widgets.org
 * Second, one of the scripts on that site is loading more scripts via `http:`
 * [https://api.simile-widgets.org/timeline/2.3.1/timeline-api.js?bundle=true](https://api.simile-widgets.org/timeline/2.3.1/timeline-api.js?bundle=true)
 * I’ve used that tool before and I pulled a local copy so that I could get around
   just such a problem. I recommend that you get your developers to do likewise.
 * cheers,
    Ross
 *  Thread Starter [David Radovanovic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dpaule/)
 * (@dpaule)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-references-insecure-link/#post-6600745)
 * Thanks for the reply. I did pull local copies though I can’t seem to figure out
   a clean way to reference them in my (sub)site of a multisite/user installation.
 * Two questions:
 * 1. How to overwrite the plugin’s files, e.g. *./wp-content/plugins/simile/myscripts?
   
   2. The proper way to reference the local scripts, e.g. *./wp-content/themes/mytheme/
   similescripts?
 * Thanks
 *  Plugin Author [webaware](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webaware/)
 * (@webaware)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-references-insecure-link/#post-6600755)
 * G’day David,
 * Is that your own plugin? If so, edit it to load the scripts using the `plugins_url()`
   function:
 * [https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/plugins_url](https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/plugins_url)
 * If this isn’t your plugin, best to take it back to the plugin authors and get
   them to incorporate a local copy. It’s just not going to work with that remote
   copy from that server, given the SSL certificate problem.
 * NB: “[One does not simply](https://youtu.be/r21CMDyPuGo) load Simile Timeline
   scripts locally”, there’s some other config work involved IIRC. I vaguely remember
   integrating the Simile Timeline library into a custom MediaWiki extension a few
   years ago, and it had a couple of bits to it: a config bit where you set up the
   library’s environment, and the library scripts themselves, with some other scripty
   bits in between. Make sure you get all those bits singing HTTPS.
 * cheers,
    Ross
 *  Thread Starter [David Radovanovic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dpaule/)
 * (@dpaule)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-references-insecure-link/#post-6600764)
 * Thanks Ross!
 *  Thread Starter [David Radovanovic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dpaule/)
 * (@dpaule)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-references-insecure-link/#post-6600765)
 * BTW, the authors don’t seem to be supporting that plugin since requested have
   gone unanswered for some time now. Thanks again!
 *  Plugin Author [webaware](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webaware/)
 * (@webaware)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-references-insecure-link/#post-6600768)
 * Hey David, before you get too deep into modifying someone else’s plugin to get
   this working properly in `https`, perhaps consider a different solution. This
   SO question has some interesting alternatives in the answers, including a cleaned-
   up Simile Timeline.
 * [http://stackoverflow.com/q/4700419/911083](http://stackoverflow.com/q/4700419/911083)
 * cheers,
    Ross

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 * [HTTPS](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/https/)
 * [insecure](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/insecure/)
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 * Last reply from: [webaware](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webaware/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-references-insecure-link/#post-6600768)
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