Request for feedback: Your HTTPS configurations

An ongoing goal of WordPress is to improve the way it works for sites that use HTTPSHTTPS HTTPS is an acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure. HTTPS is the secure version of HTTP, the protocol over which data is sent between your browser and the website that you are connected to. The 'S' at the end of HTTPS stands for 'Secure'. It means all communications between your browser and the website are encrypted. This is especially helpful for protecting sensitive data like banking information., and more specifically sites that run a mixture of schemes (for example, HTTPS in the adminadmin (and super admin) area but HTTPHTTP HTTP is an acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. HTTP is the underlying protocol used by the World Wide Web and this protocol defines how messages are formatted and transmitted, and what actions Web servers and browsers should take in response to various commands. on the front end).

One of the most visible bugs currently is that media in an HTTPS admin area is served over HTTP unless the ‘WordPress Address’ setting (siteurl) also uses HTTPS, which means that the FORCE_SSL_ADMIN constant isn’t a complete drop-in solution to securing your admin area.

Addressing all the possible configurations of HTTPS is difficult, so I’d like to put out a request for anyone who’s using a particularly interesting HTTPS configuration on your site to let us know what your setup is.

Of particular interest would be a site that’s using different domain names for HTTPS and HTTP, different domain names for the admin area and front end, different ports anywhere, self-signed certs for the admin area, HTTPS admin areas with additional access restrictions, multisites with and without domain mapping that use a mixture of HTTPS and HTTP, etc.

If your site has an interesting HTTPS configuration, and of course if it suffers from scheme related bugs as a result, please let us know in the comments below.

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