Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-2217381-20190717184122

Has there been a change to Fandom recently that is causing all external URL links that start with "http:" to be rewritten as "https:"? Girl Genius, the webcomic that is the subject of our wiki, does not use secure http. We have templates to aid in linking to specific pages in the comic, which generate links starting with "http:". Suddenly, as of two or three days ago, these links are being changed to start with "https:" which is causing the links to fail with messages such as: "This site can’t provide a secure connection" or "Secure Connection Failed".

A direct URL, such as the one below, is also rewritten:

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20190710

If you click on it, you should see that, on the browser page/tab that opens, the URL now starts with "https:". If you remove the 's' from the URL in the browser's address bar and press the Enter key (Return key on a Macintosh), you should see that the URL works.

Is this a bug in Fandom? If not, how can we address this problem so that our links start working again? -- William Ansley (talk) 18:41, July 17, 2019 (UTC) 