React application redirects all URLs to https and breaks my API

[zenandreas]

Hello,

My website www.cabalchronicles.com.

I’ve been working locally on the React → NodeJs connection and everything runs smoothly. After publishing i’ve noticed all api calls are being made to HTTPS instead of HTTP. I’m assuming this is something related to netlify and its automatic redirect to https ? Not sure what to do here.

[nathanmartin]

@zenandreas Depending on what you’re doing you may be able to use a proxy to achieve this, see:

Rewrites and proxies

Here’s a thread where someone needed to post to an external api via http:

Send a http request via proxy which supported by _redirects, but still "the content must be served over HTTPS"

Website website: https://esgtool-extention.netlify.app/ Problem Description Due to no https support, I must post a http request to API on http://www.esgcraftgame.com/api.php/. I find that it is not allowed. After seaching, the only way is to add a proxy by _redirects file. But I still failed, and the request return following. It seen has used the proxy, but still failed. Mixed Content: The page at 'https://esgtool-extention.netlify.app/' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure XMLHt…