----- Original Message -----
> From: "Georg Schönberger" <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Wednesday, 3 December, 2014 11:24:02 AM
> Subject: [MediaWiki-l] Protocol relative image URLs with Pound and https
>
> Hi Meadiawiki Team/Users,
>
> I am currently preparing our Mediawiki to run with HTTPS behind Pound and
> Varnish.
> The setup went very well so far but now I have troubles with getting mixed
> content on image urls.
>
> As Mediawiki is using protocol relative URLs (for images too?) I thought I
> don't have to setup
> much, if the protocol is detected correctly. Pound adds the
> 'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO' Header, and
> I've found the Mediawiki detection in includes/WebRequest.php:
> if ( ( isset( $_SERVER['HTTPS'] ) && $_SERVER['HTTPS'] == 'on' ) ||
> ( isset( $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO'] ) &&
> $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO'] == 'https' ) ) {
> return 'https';
>
> Therefore I assume that protocol detection works correctly. I have also
> enabled $wgSecureLogin to see
> if protocol detection works, and as far as I can see it does. I have also run
> * echo $this->getRequest()->getProtocol();
> on a Special Page, and this prints "https" even behind Pound. So Mediawiki
> should detect the Pound Header.
>
> But images are still used with <img alt="..." src="http://..";>, even if the
> page is called with https://.
>
> Are any further steps to get images work with https? (e.g. set $_SERVER
> variables)
> Are images using protocol relative paths per default?
>
> I am using
> * Mediawiki 1.23.7 (987edf2) 09:58, 28 November 2014
>
OK, I've got the error now - ensure to use protocol relative URLs with foreign
file repos:
$wgForeignFileRepos[] = array(
'class' => 'ForeignDBRepo',
'name' => 'otherwiki',
'url' => "//www.example.com/images",
[...]
Then Mediawiki is handling links/images correctly behind pound.
- Georg
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