Sunday, February 17, 2013  Disqus now linking uploaded images to
their CDN over HTTPS  As Disqus is moving to add HTTPS support
in the latest version of Disqus, Disqus 2012, bits and pieces of
the embed are already getting HTTPS support tacked on, even by
default. Today I just discovered that newly uploaded images are
now hosted on their CDN, with a HTTPS connection.  I know, it
sounds a bit complicated, but basically I've figured out that
Disqus has one main CDN, and depending on how you format the URL
you can grab resources through a normal connection or through an
encrypted socket.  The URL scheme basically works like this:
Not that much of a difference, but a neat trick if you wish to
go the extra length to get resources over an encrypted
connection. The whole point of this article was to show that
newly uploaded images are linked to their source (on Disqus)
with a HTTPS address instead of the old, normal one.  Disqus has
already added HTTPS support for Disqus 2012, but they don't
quite "guarantee" full