[ROL-1998] Allow both HTTP and HTTPS by using // instead of schema://

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Affects Version/s: 5.0.3
• Component/s: User Interface - General
• Customer(s): raibledesigns.com
• Assignee: Roller Unassigned
• Reporter: Matt Raible
• Created: 09/Apr/14 19:36
• Updated: 26/May/14 17:41
• Resolved: 26/May/14 17:41

Description

On http://raibledesigns.com, I'd love to be able to serve up my site with both HTTP and HTTPS. I've found that the easiest way to do this (in a web browser) is to use schema-less URLs (// instead of http://). However, many of the Roller macros use the Absolute URL's value to construct their URL.

I tried using "//raibledesigns.com" as an absolute URL, but this didn't work. You can see the issues I encountered on the Roller mailing list:

http://markmail.org/message/wpmqspvapb2p5lx5

As a workaround for many URLs, I was able to append ".replace('https://', '')" in my theme. However, there were a number of them I was unable to change b/c they're embedded in macros.

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For Atom/RSS feeds, I can see why the Absolute URL is important. However, for the HTML-rendered version, it'd be great if the schema from the browser's address bar could be used.