: Is it possible to redirect https to http? I am working on a website with Comodo SSL installed. There are http: links to pages that Chrome and IE-11 complain are not secure and block access

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I am working on a website with Comodo SSL installed. There are http: links to pages that Chrome and IE-11 complain are not secure and block access to them unless users explicitly allow them when prompted.

Although some of the links do have https equivalents, others (HuffingtonPost.com) do not. The HuffPost links are articles written by the site owner, and since I have no control over HuffPost, I believe my only recourse it to copy the articles over to his blogger site. UGH!

There is one important site I do have control over, and would like to redirect the links (that I will change from http to https) to the site without installing SSL. I tried using URL Rewrite to perform the https to http redirection, but even though the pattern matches it (https://thebeautyquotient.com/) the browser displays "Your connection is not private" showing https with a red diagonal line through it. I assume the URL redirection isn't working. Here's the rule:

<rule name="https to http" patternSyntax="Wildcard" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="https*" />
<action type="Redirect" url="http://www.{HTTP_HOST}/{R:1}" />
<conditions>
<add input="{ALL_HTTP}" pattern="off" />
</conditions>
</rule>


Note I tried using Rewrite as well as redirect and also removing the condition.

Thanks for taking the time reading trough this question.

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