Warning with https site when stream has an image from a shared link
By Andy on Sunday, 01 March 2015
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Not sure if there's a solution to this but I've recently moved my site to https:// and I notice the nice green security indicator I get in the browser address bar, switches to a warning sign when the community stream includes an image taken from another site (in the case of my stream URL I've given, it's an image auto-created from the 'share link' option).

Any way around this?
Thanks!
Hello Andy,

Yep, actually it is supposed to cache these external files locally but sometimes these remote sites are very particular about robots retrieving their images and adds some leech protection on their images which somehow modifies the path of the files causing it close to impossible to download these images.
Mark
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Saturday, 07 March 2015 18:24
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Hello Andy,

There has been a lot of discussion about this and unfortunately not something that we can control. If you share a link that does not support https, there is no way to enforce it to use https.

If we try to force it to use https, your site will take longer to load if the image doesn't exist on the remote site since it would block the page execution and you'll see the loading indicator on your tab for a while.
Mark
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Sunday, 01 March 2015 23:07
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OK thanks Mark... understood... and I assume it's already been considered about actually bringing the image in to the local web so that it would no longer be an external image (and thus would also be protected from becoming a broken image with changes made to the external site).... sorry if that's repeating a basic idea that's already been raised but doesn't work for some good reason!
Andy
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Saturday, 07 March 2015 11:34
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OK got it! Thanks for taking the time to explain that.
Andy
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Saturday, 07 March 2015 20:33
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No problem Andy
Mark
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Sunday, 08 March 2015 00:14
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