How to secure a site when users have IMG tags within their posts?

[beansbaxter]

I'm having troubles securing a site...

I followed these instructions to convert my site to HTTPS:

https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/articles/4361080-converting-your-forum-to-https

The majority of the site shows the secure padlock, with the exception of any thread that has images.

To check on a thread not showing a secure padlock, I went to this site:

https://www.whynopadlock.com/index.html

And the insecure URL's are coming from photobucket images that users have posted.

How do I secure a site with HTTPS when users have IMG tags within their posts for third party images?

[BirdOPrey5]

There's no good way. For photobucket you could perhaps look at the URL to photobucket then use a Replacement Variable in Style Manager in the Admin CP to replace http;//whatever to https://whatever but that won't work with all sites.

There are discussions on vBulletin.org on ways around this with custom code and 3rd party add-ons.

[IggyP]

i wonder if cloudflares "frontend" encryption would avoid the errors...i believe thats the idea, although i havent tried...they also have an option to try to use https in cases where sites serve both ways but that wont help for some like photobucket