Loading Google font in HTTPS, content being blocked

31
votes

There is a wordpress theme that automatically pulls the option font picked and requests it from google font. when ssl was needed for a few selected pages the font became missing

Viewing the console log:

[blocked] The page at 'https://www.example.com/' was loaded over HTTPS, but ran insecure content from 'http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Alegreya+Sans:300,400,500,700,800': this content should also be loaded over HTTPS.

would going into the code and make all requests in https from google font work? Is there some workaround to this?

found the source code... but seems like it is already doing this... could there be a error in the if logic?

$prefix = "http";
            if(isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && $_SERVER['HTTPS'] == 'on') $prefix = "https";

            if($get_google_font){

            if(!in_array($rule_split[0], $this->used_fonts))
            {
                $this->extra_output .= "\n<!-- google webfont font replacement -->\n";
                $this->extra_output .= '<link id="google_webfont_'.$this->webfont_count.'" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="'.$prefix.'s://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family='.str_replace(' ','+',$rule_split[0]).$font_weight.'" />';
            }
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csswordpressfontshttpsmixed-content

4 Answers

48
votes

Edit your theme replacing every occurence of http://fonts.googleapis.com/... with https://fonts.googleapis.com/... (mind the s).

Resources that might pose a security risk (such as scripts and fonts) must be loaded through a secure connection when requested in the context of a secured page for an obvious reason: they could have been manipulated along the way.

27
votes

Use protocol relative URIs

Just use a // prefix. (instead of http[s]://)

  • On an https page, the secure version wil be loaded.
  • On on a plain http page, the plain http version will be loaded.

Edit your theme replacing every occurence of http://fonts.googleapis.com/... with //fonts.googleapis.com/...

7
votes

let the browser handle all the things just remove 'http' from your reference.

likewise you have to do for other libraries also if you are facing same problem with them e.g.

https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:700,600,800,400

to

//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:700,600,800,400

same for 

http://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.2.0/css/font-awesome.min.css

to

//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.2.0/css/font-awesome.min.css
1
votes

I faced this problem when you are using google cdn links and which are not accessible (such as country like china), try to use local files in place of cdns