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

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**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, 3:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/outgoing-partial-links-https-on-the-fly-not-http/291374/6 "2024-01-13T15:56:48Z")

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> [@pfaffman](#):
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> I think you’re wrong that those sites don’t need https. There is no excuse not to make your site secure now.

I don’t think I am wrong when we are talking about reality.

Need for securing connections between servers using SSL when data is not including anything that need to secure is worth of another topic. But is totally off topic here, though.

But saying to users that sorry, you can’t link because 3rd party isn’t using port 443 is just bad idea. It is not admin’s or not even discourse’s job to say what someone should or must do.

> [@Arkshine](#):
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> I’m pretty sure that modern browsers prioritize HTTPS over HTTP by default.

Yes if it is there. And some household routers/modems are configured to use only https and that is actually really annoying. Because not every site follows Google’s want to use SSL everywhere and partly hecause so many platform serves old links using http and those stubid boxes can’t rewrite url.

So before any feature discussion there should be another meta topic first: is it responsibility of forum platform force to use SSL for outbound links.

After that technical solution is reasonable easy, I reckon — but again, I’m not a dev.

But back to topic.

So search&replace isn’t acute solution? But I don’t follow now… **again** … is the real issue how Discourse automatically forms links if just plain url is given? Is so, then I backup a little and yes, automatically there should be https — but it must be editable.

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