request ssl player info about iframely

[iparamonau]

There is no option to request only ssl players. Iframely will return everything it got and you'll need to filter out.

With domain plugins, we try to output // where both http and https are available. If it's https only, it'll start with https://.

The generic parsers, backed by our whitelist file (where we manually QA domains), will also have ssl in rels array to confirm that this is the site has valid ssl certificate.

[joelabair]

Awesome, thanks for the quick info!

[iparamonau]

Actually, another thought. If you'd be using iframely.js client wrapper, there are helper methods to filter links out there. You may take a look how we filter https ourselves in Iframely for Gmail Chrome ext.

var player = $.iframely.filterLinksByRel(["player"], data.links, {httpsOnly: true, returnOne: true});

I'll keep this ticket open for now. We are refactoring our core in refactor branch, and were thinking about requesting specific infos. Perhaps, we'd have good ideas on how to fit it in.

[joelabair]

Ahh cool. I believe I can work with that.

In our use case, we rely heavily on chrome users in our app. We're https only, and display user curated content. As mixed content is prohibited from SSL pages, we need to limit embeds accordingly.

Yahoo video - specifically, returns only http embeds. Confirmed this with the yahoo/oembed endpoint as well. The same yahoo embed URLs are available over both http and https, but the response is always an http embed resource. Leaving it up to the consumer to assume https compatibility and switch, I guess.

Perhaps this is intended.

Working with oembed providers, I noticed that a few (google, watsia) take an ssl boolean parameter and respond accordingly. It would be useful to support this in the iframely endpoint. As not all use cases are jQuery / browser.

[iparamonau]

I will close this ticket here. API can't really do more than described above, and filtering links in response is still relevant.

However, we also ended up publishing support of hosted widgets in iframe.ly cloud recently. It takes care of SSL fallbacks, among others and is long waited response to this ticket too.