Major blog update with HTTPS support

With recently added HTTPS support for Google Blogger, i’ve worked hard to make my blog fully compatible with it:

Snowflake photography blog The Keys to December fully supports HTTPS access

At first, i checked all scripts in use, and make sure that they can be loaded over HTTPS, so i don’t get mixed content warning from browsers, when protected page contains some unprotected elements. Also, i got this warning because my old code for E-Mail subscription from Feedburner service contains two HTTP references. I replaced them to HTTPS, and subscription form works as it should. With all blog photos and graphics i have no problems, thanks to Flickr, which switched to HTTPS long ago. Although, i checked old Flickr embed codes, taken before HTTPS support was rolled out, and get new codes for these images.

But then, i need to change all internal links in all posts and pages from absolute to relative form:

http://chaoticmind75.blogspot.com/…
should be
//chaoticmind75.blogspot.com/…

Then, clicking a link on protected page will load protected, and click on standard HTTP page will load standard. This was really hard work, because my blog have almost two hundred posts and static pages with hundreds of internal links. As side effect, i checked also all outgoing links: updated many of them to HTTPS versions (for sites that supports it), and removed several dead links (or updated them to proper versions).

So, if you will go to any protected page, you’ll surf protected version of blog:

https://chaoticmind75.blogspot.com

…and standard HTTP pages are fully functional, too:

http://chaoticmind75.blogspot.com


The keys to december

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