[Aaron Silver]

Steve,

When I updated to Version 8.5.7 from Version 8.2.8, my website broke because it stopped loading any styles. I was able to hunt down the problem to Connections. The style it’s trying to load is showing up with a bad path:

<link rel='stylesheet' id='cn-chosen-css'  href='//bjnyc.staging.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/connections/vendor/chosen/chosen.min.css?ver=1.4.2' type='text/css' media='all' />

It should have http: in front of the URL, like all the other css URLs that load into the site. (The website actually broke, and loaded no css at all, because we’re using wp-minify, and the minified URL it produces is broken because of this one bad URL).

I hunted around a little bit in the connections PHP, and found a variable $url which is used when enqueueing the stylesheet. $url is produced on line 222 of class.scripts.php:

$url = cnURL::makeProtocolRelative( CN_URL );

I stopped hunting at that point.

Can you help solve this?

Thanks,
Aaron.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Aaron

That is correct, that is a standard supported by all browsers and WordPress for quite some time. It is a protocol relative URL. This allows the asset to be loaded over either http or https without browser throwing mixed content warnings.

So, in short, this is not a bug with Connections. It is a bug in WP Minify not properly supporting assets that were enqueued with protocol relative URLs. If WP Minify has an option to exclude files, then I suggest try adding this file as an exclusion. The assets loaded by Connections are already minified anyway.

Hoe that helps!

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