Last modified: 2012-09-20 16:20:16 UTC
From https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United_States&oldid=513092122 the link "Cite this page" takes you to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Cite&page=United_States&id=512967581 which unexpectedly links to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United_States&oldid=513092122 dumping you out SSL.
Rephrasing bug. Note that this may be by design (so that we consistently print canonical urls), not sure whether this is a bug.
Text on the Special:Cite page can be customized using https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Cite_text It currently uses {{canonicalurl:}} function that does not change protocol for reasons stated in discussion bug 29497 {{fullurl:}} can create protocol-independent link but this may or may not be accepted by browsers. We probably don't want those links to be added to footnotes in the printed literature.
The extension has little to do with the problem (except for including {{canonicalurl}} in the default MediaWiki:Cite_text message). It needs to be solved in the parser taking into account that parsed wikitext needs to be cached. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 29497 ***
De-duping. I am not sure whether the reason for using {{canonicalurl:}} really is that. Either way, I think it makes sense that it outputs a canonical url. I don't think it is a temporary measure due to it being impossible (due to bug 29497), it that way on purpose. So even if bug 29497 is fixed, it should stay this way for citation?
