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Special:Cite displays protocol relative URLs if $wgServer is relative
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Author: reachouttothetruth

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Special:Cite is using protocol relative URLs for the permanent link. See [[Special:Cite/Train]] for example. Since these links are intended to be distributed outside of the browser, it should instead use the canonical protocol.

I'm not sure how that could be done though. SpecialCite uses a very strange localization method. From what I can tell, the message seems to come from the cite_text file, which uses {{fullurl}} to generate the url. {{fullurl}} can't force the canonical protocol, can it?

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 21 2014, 11:57 PM
• bzimport added a project: Cite.
• bzimport set Reference to bz31681.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
• bzimport created this task.Oct 13 2011, 10:27 PM
duplicatebug added a comment.Oct 14 2011, 5:13 PM

There is {{canonicalurl:}}, but when visiting Special:Cite over https there should a https link and not a http link

He7d3r added a comment.Oct 14 2011, 5:52 PM

This problem was also reported[1] on Portuguese Wikipedia some days ago and Roan fixed it[2] by using {{canonicalurl:}}. But this indeed doesn't solve the problem of having http links for users visiting [[Special:Cite]] on secure server.

[1] https://pt.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=27155238&oldid=27143056#URLs_relativos
[2] https://pt.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=27155115&oldid=19479266

• brion added a comment.Oct 14 2011, 9:31 PM

Seems sensible enough to use the canonical URL; ideally that should change to https: at some point in the future (all non-encrypted traffic in general is kinda unsafe and should be deprecated, especially for interactive services).

Raymond added a comment.Oct 15 2011, 7:48 PM

Per above comment changed to canonical URL: r99905

Raymond added a comment.Oct 18 2011, 3:30 PM
  • Bug 31799 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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