Ignore SSL Certificate or Change HTTPS to HTTP

Hello @derweili !

I trust you’re doing well!

I think rewriting internal links would not be a good idea as then you’d have to rewrite them back again when sending to the visitors.

However, there seems to be an option to do this. I haven’t been able to check as I don’t have a non-ssl host anymore, but this looks promising. Please try the following code:

<?php

add_filter('broken-link-checker-curl-options', function($options) {
  $options[CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER] = false;
  $options[CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST] = false;
}, 10, 1);

This will deactivate SSL checks.

To install the code, please copy it to a file with a .php extension and place the file in /wp-content/mu-plugins/ directory (create the directory if it doesn’t exist).

Hopefully this will work. If it doesn’t, another option I’ve found will require editing the plugin’s files unfortunately, but the edit is simple to apply:

File: modules/checkers/http.php
Line: 158: $url = $this->clean_url( $url );

Right below this line please add:

$url = str_replace('https', 'http', $url);

Hope one of those will work. In the meantime, I’ll file a feature request for this option.

Kind regards,
Pawel