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pfg on April 8, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: WordPress.com turns on HTTPS encryption for all we...

I'm not sure if WordPress is actually doing this, but they might be using something like camo[1] to transparently rewrite any http:// URLs to an image proxy running on SSL.

This gets harder to implement correctly depending on what kind of content you allow on your sites (i.e. does your CMS only permit sanitized HTML, or are users allowed to do basically anything?), so it's not a perfect solution for everyone, but it might work here.

[1]: https://github.com/atmos/camo

barsxl on April 9, 2016 | [–]

Photon[0] does exactly this (and more!) and is free to use as part of Jetpack[1]

0. http://developer.wordpress.com/docs/photon/ 1. https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/

stock_toaster on April 8, 2016 | [–]

And if node isn't your thing, there is a work-a-like[1] written in Go.

Disclosure: I am the author of go-camo.

[1]: https://github.com/cactus/go-camo

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