roGridScreen and HTTPS Posters

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Hello All,
Did anyone found how we could use image over HTTPS in gridScreen. I am using the certificate files and still I can’t see the image appear in grid screen. Same certificate file works for posterscreen,springboardscreen but not for gridScreen.

If anyone found some way out to use HTTPS image in gridScreen. Please do share.

Thanks in advance.

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This is a known problem, not sure if it’s been fixed in a recent firmware update.

http://forums.roku.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=51094

The only two solutions I am aware of are to either not use HTTPS/SSL for grid posters, or to copy the HTTPS/SSL grid posters into tmp:/, then display the tmp:/ posters in the grid.

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I’ve filed a bug on this.

If anyone cares to create a simple demo app showing this issue, which I can sideload, please email or dropbox me the .zip

  • Joel
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Just checked, the problem still exists in 5.2.

There’s a .zip on its way to you.

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Any update on this? Is this a cert issue? Are there anyways to load images without adding another cert.

I am seeing this issue on roGridScreen and roSpringboardScreen.

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It doesn’t look like the bug has been addressed yet, so I’ve raised its visibility with our engineering leads.

  • Joel
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Any update on this?

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Unfortunately not. Most businesses don’t deliver their thumbnails over SSL so the business case is not there to make this a high priority, however, this bug probably will be fixed in the future.

  • Joel
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“RokuJoel” wrote:
Unfortunately not. Most businesses don’t deliver their thumbnails over SSL so the business case is not there to make this a high priority, however, this bug probably will be fixed in the future.

  • Joel

Hi Joel,

We’re working through securing one of the top 10 Roku Apps with SSL (including thumbnails) due to a security issue and to ensure privacy of content. Can we speak through PM about the effect this bug is creating and rational for fixing? It appears as though I cannot PM you directly.

Thanks,
Ben

edit
Since I’m a new forum member, it seems PMs are disabled for me. Feel free to email me if that is easier than enabling PMs. Thank you in advance.

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I’m moving a site to all https and the roku channel shares code for image sources, this issue just hit me. At least there’s an explanation for what’s going wrong. I’ll need to create a separate feed just for the roku grid images to be non-https.

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Not necessarily - what I’ve been doing here is in the script for roku, I simply do a string replace in the parsing routine from the https url that all our other platforms use, with an http url just for the the images and it works fine - because who knows - it’s been years so far, it might be a couple decades.

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Just wondering when did this get fixed? I’ve been working on an app developing with my Roku 2 4205EU and my Black NOW TV Box 4200SK, and that’s been fine. However when I loaded the app on to the old White NOW TV Box 2400SK images were failing to load.
It’s taken me about 2 weeks to realise the issue was HTTPS. I’ve done a simple hack which is to replace the URLs in the api data I get back and downgrade them to HTTP.
Was the fix in an OS release (the 2400SK are still on 6.1.5660) or something else?

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“artesea” wrote:
Just wondering when did this get fixed? I’ve been working on an app developing with my Roku 2 4205EU and my Black NOW TV Box 4200SK, and that’s been fine. However when I loaded the app on to the old White NOW TV Box 2400SK images were failing to load.
It’s taken me about 2 weeks to realise the issue was HTTPS. I’ve done a simple hack which is to replace the URLs in the api data I get back and downgrade them to HTTP.
Was the fix in an OS release (the 2400SK are still on 6.1.5660) or something else?

This was fixed in firmware 7.0.