BuddyPress admin bar doesn't load avatar images over HTTPS if wp-admin site is HTTPS

[alexbilbie]

If I am editing a post when the site is running over HTTPS then the avatar images in the BP admin bar aren't being loaded over HTTPS and so are causing mixed content warnings.

[DJPaul]

You say "avatar images", plural: where do we add multiple images to the admin bar? We do replace the image in the "howdy" menu when a user is logged in, but we only ever have one image there.

[boonebgorges]

We do swap out the admin bar image, and we do it using (eventually) wp_upload_dir(). From what I can see, wp_upload_dir() does *not* account for HTTPS. So my hunch is that alexbilbie is right, though I don't have an https rig to check on at the moment. I'm adding r-a-y as a watcher because I know he does.

[r-a-y]

alexbilbie: I have a couple of follow-up questions.

• Do you have FORCE_SSL_ADMIN defined in wp-config.php?
• For your avatar, did you upload an avatar or are you using Gravatar?
• If you are using Gravatar, are you testing on a local site that is not accessible externally?

If you are locally-uploading an avatar and are using the FORCE_SSL_ADMIN define, your avatar image URL should switch over to HTTPS automatically.

If you have any other details about your install, let me know so I can try and duplicate it.

[DJPaul]

Ray: no feedback from original reporter in a month; do you want to bump this to future release because you suspect the issue might be valid, or shall we close it as invalid?

[johnjamesjacoby]

Going to punt to 1.8. Let's keep this alive and look into it more, but seems non urgent for 1.7, and we've all reviewed it.

[lakrisgubben]

Tried this with WP 4.4.1 and BP trunk and I can't replicate, no mather if I use gravatar or locally uploaded profile photo or if I have the site_url and home_url set to https or http or if FORCE_SSL_ADMIN is true or false. i.e. it works as it should and I don't get any mixed content warnings. :)

[r-a-y]

Going to mark this as worksforme based off of @lakrisgubben's comments and older feedback.