Slideshare https oEmbed delivers http

[krogsgard]

When using Slideshare's oEmbed in WordPress, inserting the Slideshare URL with https included does not actually deliver an https result.

Sample http response: ​http://www.slideshare.net/api/oembed/2?url=http://www.slideshare.net/haraldf/business-quotes-for-2011&format=json
Sample https response: ​http://www.slideshare.net/api/oembed/2?url=https://www.slideshare.net/haraldf/business-quotes-for-2011&format=json

However, when using a direct iframe embed, the Slideshare https embed works fine. So this appears to be a Slideshare oEmbed delivery bug.

Two things:

1) Can we get the "weight" of WordPress in a bug report to Slideshare regarding their oEmbed handling?
2) Is there any reason we don't always attempt to grab https? Would it hurt anything?

Re: my 2nd item, here's a sample situation: Say a client embeds stuff with oEmbed with http, and then at a later date switches their site to https. Now, those http requests will cause conflicts. Versus, if we always attempted to deliver https, sites would be fine if they switch to https.

[Viper007Bond]

While I agree that they should return a HTTPS link if the original URL is a HTTPS one, I don't think we need a ticket here on the issue. It just clutters up Trac.

I'll see if anyone has any contacts over there so we can get this resolved.

Is there any reason we don't always attempt to grab https? Would it hurt anything?

Let's split this out into its own ticket instead of grouping it into this separate issue (Slideshare).

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

Couldn't this be due to a caching bug on our end?

[Viper007Bond]

Replying to Denis-de-Bernardy:

Couldn't this be due to a caching bug on our end?

In this specific case, Slideshare is always returning http:// even for a https:// link.