Getting AGOL HTTPS Ready- Some Questions!

Question

Hello ArcGIS Online‌ Team,

Our team had a few questions as we get ready to switch our content to HTTPS only and we were wondering if you could help?

We've used the AGO Security Advisor (highly recommend this tool to others who see this thread) and identified the applications that are not HTTPS ready. Many of these applications have images or content coming from our web server (not an ArcGIS Server), where we do have the capability to switch to HTTPS. Our question- If we switch the web server content to HTTPS will the URLs in the AGOL apps automatically update to HTTPS or will they need to be manually updated (and in turn show mixed content warning)?

Thanks in advance for any clarity!

Eduardo_Fernandez_EsriAu · Answer

Hello Amanda

File based urls or application intergration urls would not be updated to https through this setting if the url is stored as a data value in a field. I tested this out In AGOL (one feature with url of http and a second feature with url of https) and both were able to be clicked on and open a pdf document in a new tab. I would update these stored data values as a matter of good practice.

My understanding is that photos or videos being stored against a feature hosted layer ( for example embedded in a pop up window) will be updated by this setting.

Regards

Ed

Amanda.Huber@threeriversparks.org_trpd · Answer

Hi Eduardo,

Thanks so much for that great resource. Unfortunately it doesn't quite answer my question.

I'm wondering about the media (images, videos, etc) that may be used in popups, applications, etc~ when switching to HTTPS on the server for these items will the url references to this media also respect the HTTPS setting or will they manually need to be updated?

Eduardo_Fernandez_EsriAu · Answer

Hello Amanda and Kellie

Yes, for the most part, most items have a url in their description definitions so everything would need to be updated to https. However, the following link may be very helpful for updating layers

Updating web map layers to use HTTPS

In AGOL, go to a web map's item page -> Settings -> Layer Settings and there is the option there to Update Layers to HTTPS. This button updates the layers\feature services within the web map from http to https.

I would be interested to know how this results for you

Regards Ed