Force redirect from HTTPS to HTTP in Drupal 7 Multitsite?

Question

I'm trying to serve a Kaltura video running on CentOS 6+ on one server, by plugging the Object code for embedded video inside a node body (or even using the Kaltura Drupal module), running on a Drupal 7 multisite on Ubuntu 10.04LTS.

Most browsers accept it but Chrome, which denies the request as being insecure content. We serve all our D7 sites on HTTPS, forced redirect. But now I want to only serve ONE of the multisite as HTTP so that it could show this Kaltura video, and not have Chrome hiccup.

Here's what I have in the .htaccess file of the D7 parent directory.

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{Request_URI} !^(/mysite/user)
RewriteRule ^(/.*) http://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [NC,R=301]

I've tried the Secure Login module, as well as the very close suggestions here - Redirect /user/login to HTTPS, all other requests to HTTP, to straight mode rewrite on apache - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1816119/using-mod-rewrite-how-do-i-force-https-for-certain-paths-and-http-for-all-othe - and nothing makes sense.

Note: Not a mod-rewrite expert, but I now feel this is somehow attributed to not doing something correctly with Drupal. Currently, when you visit http://mydomain.com/mysite/user - I get this message:

You are accessing <mysite> using an unencrypted connection. For your
security, <mysite> only supports account logins using
a secure protocol such as HTTPS.

I believe this is a very popular question, but didn't really see anyone else trying to go from secure to insecure on multisite. Please advise. Thanks,!

Answer 1

Maybe you should try and and change the object embed code code to use a protocal-relative URL such as //YOURSITENAME.COM/some/path/to/video/file.mp4 you can do this easily with a WYSIWYG editor or like hook_node_view and regexing for your domain url and an object tag and removing the http:// or https:// as needed ...

Simply google for protocol-relative url and you'll find a bunch of information.