how to get https from tracking domain ?

adamx said:
If you want to avoid Gmail telling the users "Hey, the link is not safe" which translates in "you better not click on that link" then the links in the email need to start with https not http.
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Good point.
Does it happen for all links without httpS, or just some? I cannot remember having seen this for our own servers/domains (which have the auto force httpS). Maybe Google checks a link and finds if it goes to httpS? Will have to test this somehow (ie another extra non-auto force httpS server). Or maybe if sent without encryption and without httpS, then they are marked as "unsafe links"? Any deeper insight into Google's link checks, ratings and selectiveness could help.
 
Google announced a while ago that Chrome will mark all links with http:// as being non-secure, and Chrome is 60% of the market....
They don't follow the link to see if the server forces https. They simply look at the link and if it starts with http:// instead of https:// they give the user a notice, so the user knows that after clicking on the link he/she will land on a non-secure page.
 
adamx said:
Google announced a while ago that Chrome will mark all links with http:// as being non-secure
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Thx! Yes, this makes super good sense.
Not using Chrome (only if no other browser works on a site, ie almost never), I rarely come across this case.
You are right to make this a top priority, thanks for all your input on this :)
 
Keep in mind that Chrome has a 60% market share and Google is setting the trends after all.
Same thing with marking the mails as "not secure" if you don't use encryption.
 
adamx said:
Google is setting the trends after all
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Sad, because power users and customization friends suffer from their 80/20 simplicity, FF has gone the wrong way too, almost Chrome, no mht/maf/unmht anymore...and twice as fast as the last version, but FF51 was 10-50x slower than FF21, so total PR joke!
...but very good input from you re marketing/email/links :)
 
hello @adamx , can you pls help me with this ?

i have my tracking with ssl , via cloudflare (ssl certificate), changed the lines @twisted1919 mentioned:
'https://www.' . $currentDomainName => 'https://' . $trackingDomainName,
'http://www.' . $currentDomainName => 'http://' . $trackingDomainName,
'https://' . $currentDomainName => 'https://' . $trackingDomainName,

so the gmail receives the email with the https:// tracking:
https://inftrk.deservep.com/index.p...e038/eaaa9482eabebec61823b8aebd122d838590ce5b

but still the same alert "Suspicious link. This link leads to an untrusted site"
what i am doing wrong ?
many thanks
 
In Gmail go to "Show Original" and check the source of the message coming from your server.
You should see there if there are any http:// instead of https://
 
you're right. it was the 'unsubscribe link' using http://. Fixed and now i don't get the 'suspicious alert'.
however i got a 'not found ' error

The requested URL /index.php/campaigns/rw27094bs894a/track-url/nb09428j3e038/1db0e9db9d8b93b829580fa4003d396f239f9702 was not found on this server.

probably the rewriting is not correct.
i changed this 3 lines:
'https://www.' . $currentDomainName => 'https://' . $trackingDomainName,
'http://www.' . $currentDomainName => 'http://' . $trackingDomainName,
'https://' . $currentDomainName => 'https://' . $trackingDomainName,

what do think ?

thanks again for your help
 
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