upgrade all urls to https

gulp/publish-frontend.js

@@ -73,7 +73,8 @@ const htmlSources = [
 	'views/*.ejs',
 ];
 gulp.task('compress_html', () => {
-	const { version } = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync('./package.json'));
+	// eslint-disable-next-line global-require
+	const { version } = require('../package.json');
 	return gulp.src(htmlSources)
 		.pipe(ejs({
 			production: version,

server/scripts/modules/utilities.js

@@ -256,6 +256,8 @@ const utils = (() => {
 		let corsUrl = _url;
 		if (params.cors === true) corsUrl = rewriteUrl(_url);
 		const url = new URL(corsUrl);
+		// force url to secure
+		url.protocol = 'https:';
 		// add parameters if necessary
 		if (params.data) {
 			Object.keys(params.data).forEach((key) => {