Locked down and secure in Site Updates

  • Nov. 7, 2013, 7:40 p.m.
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You should now be seeing a lock in your browser bar, along with https. This is cool because it means nobody can intercept what you are receiving and posting. Everything is more secure.

However, if you link to images with an http: link, the browser bar will tell you that things are only partially encrypted (the image is not). Since most image hosting providers provide secure transfer, I generally just link images like so:

<img src="//raw.github.com/rdegges/django-sslify/master/assets/ssl_all_the_things.jpg">

Notice that the "http:" has been dropped from the url. That tells it to send your image however the page is being sent (in this case https). Which gives you:

Not a huge deal, but a nice way to stop the NSA from ogling your sexy photos. And making this page 100% encrypted. :-)


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