SSL/HTTPS appears to not work on the plugin using WordPress.com?

Resolved WPChina
(@wordpresschina)

8 years, 10 months ago

I need to use the plugin on a site using SSL. I changed the plugin vode from this:

return 'http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/' . urlencode( $url ) . '?w=' . $width . '&h=' . $height;

to this:

return 'https://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/' . urlencode( $url ) . '?w=' . $width . '&h=' . $height;

Note: I only added https.

However, when I try https, the wordpress.com server appears to not respond. Is there a method by which we can return https? Any ideas?

https://wordpress.org/plugins/browser-shots/

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Thread Starter WPChina
(@wordpresschina)

8 years, 10 months ago

I just checked and the wordpress.com server uses SSL, but it is a self-signed certificate, so browsers and servers will not be able to authenticate it without a lot of work (and trust). Maybe WordPress.com can add s non-self-signed SSL to that server?

Plugin Author binarymoon
(@binarymoon)

8 years, 10 months ago

Hi there – thanks for the tip. That’s a good catch with the browser shots secure url.

Unfortunately there’s no way for me to get wordpress.com to change the certificate since I am not affiliated with them in any way.

I’ll send them a message and point out the problem but I would be surprised if they did anything about it 🙁

Thread Starter WPChina
(@wordpresschina)

8 years, 10 months ago

Many thanks and I completely understand. On another thread I found on github the mshots opensource package, but I need to use it on a hosted account and I don’t have full root access to the server, so I need a “hosted” mshots solution.

I would also be very very happy to donate the $75 to get WordPress.com a Comodo SSL for that domain. 🙂

Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)
(@otto42)

WordPress.org Admin

8 years, 10 months ago

Change the plugin to use s0.wordpress.com instead. That one will work and has proper SSL support. The s.wordpress.com address should no longer be used.

Thread Starter WPChina
(@wordpresschina)

8 years, 10 months ago

Excellent, that you Otto! This works well.

Plugin Author binarymoon
(@binarymoon)

8 years, 10 months ago

awesome – thanks Otto. I’ll update the plugin!

Thread Starter WPChina
(@wordpresschina)

8 years, 10 months ago

I manually updated my version of the plugin. Do you expect that URL to be the only change? I’ll be able to just update and copy over what I did, correct?

Plugin Author binarymoon
(@binarymoon)

8 years, 9 months ago

yeah – that’s fine. I tidied up some code but little else has actually changed.

joloshop
(@joloshop)

8 years, 3 months ago

this helped me on my side a lot just use https://s0.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/http://www.wordpress.org/?w=680
and it is now SSL 🙂

Plugin Author binarymoon
(@binarymoon)

8 years, 3 months ago

Great – glad it helped!