Hikahop using SSL + Color Chooser Characteristic takes adds HUGE loadtimes

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please note this is an urgent issue for us, we renewed our subscription being this was recently expired and switched the url as we didnt realise our old site we dont manage anymore was on there... i hope you can help us switfly as this is a live site making sales

Hi Jerome.

Thanks for your time however I am a bit confused as i have given you incredibly specific information on what the problem is.

To further show this bug in action, I have removed easy blog and jmap entirely from my test server installation... the problem oersists. I have tried disabling almost every single thing alternative to hikashop , even trying sifferent templates, and the problem persists with hikashop.... im convunced it must be a problem there.

This issue ONLY happens on hikashop pages with the colour chooser setup per your own guide.

I am 99.95% sure this is a bug with hikashop dealing with https urlswhen the colour chooser is setup per your tutorial (see my first post).

To reiterate... in each color characteristic you add the image tag for that colour (using the url to the color image location). If these image url starts in https then the page takes an extra 10 seconds to load. If on that page the image urls in the colour chooser use a http url it loads fine.

I have solved this issue.

If you use a HTTPS absolute url in the characteristic image for the colour chooser it creates the problem.

If you use a relative url (eg: <img src="/images/colouricons/fp-jet-black.jpg" alt="Jet Black" title="Jet Black" />) there problem dissappears and https is not negatively impacted.