Hello! I have a Discourse installation that should only be used over HTTPS. However, since we also serve that forum on a Tor hidden service, we cannot use the “force HTTPS” checkbox in the options menu. This is normally all well and good, except the Wordpress plugin gets an http url for the “avatar…

[image] fortasse: have a Discourse installation that should only be used over HTTPS. However, since we also serve that forum on a Tor hidden service, we cannot use the “force HTTPS” checkbox in the options menu. This is … very bizarre. Either you are https, or you are not, there is no in betw…

You’re not wrong, it’s a very strange use case. The reason is that we cannot get TLS certificates for our Tor hidden service currently, so we are forced to run with an HTTP listener explicitly for the hidden service. That being said, when accessing the site of the “regular” Internet, we have HSTS an…

Fair enough. We’ll find a work around.

A quick and easy solution would be to customize the template functions in wp-discourse so that avatars are not displayed on your website. Look at the section ‘An example that removes the avatar image from the comments_html template’ and ‘An example that removes the ‘participants’ section’: Customi…

Wordpress plugin receives avatar URL with HTTP protocol if site uses HTTPS and no CDN

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) March 8, 2017, 3:00am 4

This in between state is not something we support.

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