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D Christian Walters
D Christian Walters
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September 7, 2016
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TOC building secure/https links?

  • September 7, 2016
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Hi!

We're moving everything to https: here. Pretty standard stuff.

However, when generating a RoboHTML project, it's apparently building the TOC with insecure links and it's hiding some topics.  Clicking the "view all content" (or equivalent) option fixes that problem, but we can't expect our non-computer-savvy users to go do that.

Is there some setting I'm missing?

Thanks!

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Captiv8r
Captiv8r
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September 7, 2016

Hi there

I'm personally unaware of any setting that controls this aspect. Of course, I could be wrong, but I don't recall ever seeing any setting one would use that says: Create this link as a secure link.

Mind you I'm not a "security expert". To me, the fact something is using HTTPS vs standard HTTP seems that it should be simply that the basic HTML pages and coding are somehow behind other pages or a firewall or something that makes the HTTPS magick happen.

Obviously I have something to learn about it all and likely will via this thread.

Off to Google now to see what I can glean about this aspect.

Cheers... Rick

D Christian Walters
D Christian WaltersAuthor
Participating Frequently
September 7, 2016

Yeah, there's apparently not a setting on the RH interface. I suspect I am either doing something entirely wrong or I need to change a .js file.  Since I'm not a programmer of any sort, much less a javascript one, I'm not sure which

D Christian Walters
D Christian WaltersAuthor
Participating Frequently
September 12, 2016

Hmmm, well, if I were in your shoes, here is how I would approach the troubleshooting.

From what you have reported, it sounds as if you are seeing a partial TOC. Right?

Assuming that's true, then it means that you have some links that work, and some that don't? And in typing that, it occurs to me that maybe you don't even see the links in the TOC until you click that option to show all content?

If that's the case, what's the difference between a link in the TOC that's visible VS one that isn't? Are both links configured the same way in the TOC? Are both links at the same TOC level? Or is one perhaps at the immediately visible level while the other is inside a book? Or what about the topics that each link point to. Same level in the folder structure or different levels in the folder structure?

My guess is that you are going to find some obscure issue where maybe a folder needs some rights changed. But that's just a hunch.

I'm assuming that if you choose to view the output immediately after you generate, all is okay there? The issue only arises once you have copied the files to the web server?

Cheers... Rick


Getting back to this...

It doesn't appear to be a folder permissions thing.  But the TOC links that are missing are actually links to other projects that get published into subfolders beneath the main project.  When you click into them, you actually get another tab and you're browsing through a different project, and they're all maintained and published separately.

The javascripting that builds the TOCs in both the main project and the sub-projects seems to scan through the folders to build the TOC. (I don't know if that's literally what the js is doing, but that's how it looks). But now in our new https world, it isn't finding those separately published sub-projects any more.

Does that make sense?

(In my defense, that weirdo structure was here before I was )

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