# Outgoing partial links -\> https (on the fly)? - NOT http

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**Created:** [January 12, 2024, 12:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/outgoing-partial-links-https-on-the-fly-not-http/291374 "2024-01-12T00:27:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jagster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jagster/32/192154_2.png) [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2024, 2:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/outgoing-partial-links-https-on-the-fly-not-http/291374/3 "2024-01-13T14:55:22Z")

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Please no. Out there is a lot of sites that are using http, because they just don’t need SSL.

Would this be another casual job for search&replace? Or am I misunderstanding everything **again**?

> **irrational panic attack**
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> Plus I’m worrying kind of edge situation where Discourse is using its own VPS and front of it is another VPS where is reverse proxy. Those will talk to each other without SSL quite often.
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> But that is totally different situation, right? But I start to be a bit jumpy everytime there is something default that can change for me familiar abbreviations…

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