1 For security reasons, ikiwiki.cgi should only be accessed via HTTPS, which is easy to set in the config, however each wiki page contains
3 <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://ikiwiki.info/style.css" type="text/css" />
4 <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://ikiwiki.info/local.css" type="text/css" />
6 regardless of whether the site is accessed via HTTP or HTTPS, which causes most modern browsers to automatically disable javascript and complain about the site only being partially encrypted. Features such as the openID-selector stop working unless the user manually allows the browser to execute unsafe scripts on the site.
8 This can be fixed by setting the base wiki url to a protocol relative url, such as
12 but this breaks all sorts of things, like the 404 plugin and wiki rebuilds will throw the following perl warning several times:
14 Use of uninitialized value in string ne at /usr/share/perl5/IkiWiki.pm line 586
16 > With a vaguely recent ikiwiki, if your `url` and `cgiurl` settings have the
18 > `url => "http://www.example.com", cgiurl => "https://www.example.com/ikiwiki.cgi"`),
19 > most links are path-only (e.g. `/style.css`), and in particular,
20 > CGI-generated pages should generate those links. This was the implementation of
21 > [[todo/want_to_avoid_ikiwiki_using_http_or_https_in_urls_to_allow_serving_both]].
23 > If your`$config{url}` and `$config{cgiurl}` have different hostnames (e.g.
24 > `url => "http://wiki.example.com", cgiurl => "http://cgi.example.com/ikiwiki.cgi"`)
25 > then you might still have this problem. In principle, IkiWiki could generate
26 > protocol-relative URLs in this situation, but it isn't clear to me how
27 > widely-supported those are.
29 >> HTML5 says protocol-relative URLs work, and they seem to be widely
30 >> supported in practice, so I've changed the rule to: if the url and cgiurl
31 >> share a scheme (protocol) but differ only by hostname, use `//foo/bar`
32 >> protocol-relative URLs. This partially addresses this todo.
33 >> I'm still thinking about what the right thing is for more complicated
34 >> situations: see [[todo/design for cross-linking between content and CGI]].
37 > If you set both the `$config{url}` and `$config{cgiurl}` to https, but make
38 > the resulting HTML available over HTTP as well as HTTPS, that should work
39 > fine - accesses will be over http until the user either explicitly
40 > navigates to https, or navigates to the CGI. --[[smcv]]