A simple solution to fix non-ssl external dynamic images. (Linux only)

Context: It sometimes happen that you want to have a dynamic image on your ssl website, but that the source site doesnt use ssl encryption. This is a problem because your browser will say that the connection to the website isn't encrypted because of that image. The solution is to get that image from the source website periodically and save it under your webserver. That way, the image is hosted on your ssl encrypted webserver.

##Installation

1- Download the imagefetcher.sh file to a directory on your server.

cd /path/to/desiredfolder
wget https://github.com/Spazmic/sslgetfix/blob/master/imagefetcher.sh

2- Modify the imagefetcher.sh file to fit your needs.

nano imagefetcher.sh

Replace "http://www.urltoimage.com/image.png" for the url of the image. By default, this script will save the image.png in the /opt folder and then copy that image.png to the webserver. You can modify the receiving folder.

3- Add the rule to your crontab

crontab -e

Put this at the end. You can change the amount of time of the fetch. Here is an example for 2 minutes.

*/2 * * * * /path/to/imagefetcher.sh