Make animations prompt/default to HTTPS

[ToldFable (fable)]

As a Roblox developer, it is currently too easy to mistakenly use HTTP instead of HTTPS inside an AnimationId property.

If Roblox is able to address this issue, it would improve my development experience, and the development experience of many others, because this animation-not-replicating problem would occur way less frequently.

This literally took me days to figure out.

Animation plays on client but not server, Animation not replicating

I have a default R15 Animate LocalScript with a custom run animation. The run animation looks fine for your own character, but doesn’t replicate to where other players can see the animation. https://i.gyazo.com/0c3f9ff31772422b793c80331b0dc766.mp4 I’ve tried everything, but I can’t get this animation to replicate to the server from the client side. Things I’ve tried: Editing the Animate LocalScript so that a server-created Animation object is used for the run animation (Instead of having …

If you use this URL, it works fine:
https://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=5196973262
If you use this URL, it only replicates to the client:
http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=5196973262

It’s a 1 character difference.

This might seem silly, but there’s a good chance that a lot of people have gone through something similar

Many of these posts remain unsolved

If there was a feature in studio that warns you when an Animation object gets assigned an HTTP instead of an HTTPS, that would be a life saver.

[buildthomas]

If you make it a habit to use the rbxassetid:// protocol, it makes it harder to fall into this pitfall, and it’s better practice than linking the roblox.com location of the asset file since the former is agnostic to where the asset is actually hosted.

https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/articles/Content

[ToldFable (fable)]

I usually do use rbxassetid://, I don’t know why I decided not to this time.
Why not just have it automatically default to that?

[buildthomas]

It actually does do that when you copy-paste link from the uploaded animation:

Did you manually type the /asset/?id endpoint link? I don’t really understand where you are even copying that from.

[ToldFable (fable)]

the default Roblox animate script

[buildthomas]

Oh okay – I wouldn’t take the default animation script as best-practice, it’s really poorly written. I’m guessing no engineer has touched that in a while.