Supporting HTTPS
If you use our main webservice http://www.caranddriving.com/ws/a041/ws.asmx you will get links and images that are served by http.
To get links and images served by https, simply use the following alternative url https://www.caranddriving.com/ws/a041/ws.asmx ; this will give you links and images all served by https.
If you want to transform an http link to an https equivalent by hand, the rules are as follows:
Using the Video Player Directly
If you use the video player directly, or the helper page (see wiki.caranddriving.com) you should find that all you need to do is call the page as a https page, like this:
Using the Helper Page
Again, simply change http to https when you link to the helper page:
Using the Webservice: Images
If you’re using the webservice, you will need to modify the url’s the webservice sends you back slightly.
For images, replace http://f2.caranddriving.com with https://www.caranddriving.com, so
becomes
Using the Webservice: Videos
For video links from the video_urlforiframe tag, simply change the http:// to https://, so
becomes
Direct Video Files
If you have access to/use the individual video file names, turn the domain name to https://www.caranddriving.com, and also take the subdomain of the server (e.g. f5) and put it after the domain name as a subdirectory, like this:
becomes
Should you use https://www.caranddriving.com/... that will work too, but will direct the video through a proxy webserver which may interfere with the streaming; direct access to ssl.caranddriving.com is preferred.