Shouldn't PrestaShop Create Relative links (or am I missing something?)

[lynnetted]

Hi -

 

I have made a few posts about HTTP vs HTTPS links and how links appear when you hover over them....

 

We have configured our whole site as secure. When we hover over links we can see HTTP links where HTTPS links should be, although the links are routed to an HTTPS page.

 

But if the links were relative instead of absolute, then I don't think it would matter if our whole page was secure or not, those HTTP links wouldn't have to be redirected to HTTPS links.

 

Can someone tell me if this is true? And if it is true - why doesn't PrestaShop create relative links instead of absolute links?

 

Thanks!

Lynnette

[Dh42]

You cannot copy and paste a relative link... They are not SEO friendly either. I remember talking to you before, what was your reason for using https on your whole site again?

[lynnetted]

Thanks DesignHaus! Good points.

 

There is a trend to have all webpages encrypted to prevent a variety of security and privacy issues. My boss likes to be on the leading edges of these trends, so we wanted to encrypt the whole site.

 

Now we are worried about Google having issues with our links being redirected too many times.

 

If you hover over most of the links on a page, you can see they are rendered as HTTP and then PrestaShop redirects them to HTTPS. Will Google rank us lower because we have redirects?

 

That's the problem I'm trying to solve right now.

 

I also talked to you about your Tekkie site. Thanks!

[Dh42]

I wouldn't suggest it doing it just because the "cutting edge sites" collect information. Like google and gmail. I don't want my searched easily accessible or people to packet sniff my email, that is why they do it. It is to keep information safe.

 

From what I am remembering, you will be directing from old urls to news ones and then running another redirect. That to me would be too many, but I haven't actually done a case study.