SSL and free certificates for ghbtns.com

[Joseph Richardson]

I know you have addressed SSL in the readme, and beyond selfhosting could you offer SSL on your domain using a free SSL solution like https://www.startssl.com/ ?

I think it would be helpful others as I continue to run into gh-pages where not just your buttons but all of the resources have been included with explicit HTTP protocol and fail to work. This is made more complicated by the use of extensions like https everywhere which treat github as a secure only site.

[Mike Chelen (he/him)]

I agree, it would save headaches for users if https://ghbtns.com worked.
Another temporary workaround besides the one mentioned in the README is to use https://mdo.github.io/github-buttons/
So http://ghbtns.com/github-btn.html becomes https://mdo.github.io/github-buttons/github-btn.html
This works because the domain github.io supports SSL.

[Joseph Richardson]

Fantastic. Thanks for the quick reply with another workaround. The fact github.io supports ssl is the very reason I ask. Plugins that switch to https on domains seem to include that one. This will help greatly.

[Jaex]

CloudFlare have free SSL support now: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-universal-ssl/

[Peter Dave Hello]

any updates? https support will be very useful, +1

[Joseph Richardson]

+1 for cloudflare's universal SSL solution @Jaex mentioned.

[Peter Dave Hello]

+1

[Mark Otto]

Added the CloudFlare SSL support this weekend—happy https://-ing!

[Mike Chelen (he/him)]

@mdo That's great to see, thanks!