This week we’re going to talk about another client requested feature. Many EDGAR HTML documents end up referencing previously filed documents on the SEC’s EDGAR system. These documents are located at “https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/[document reference]”. Recently the SEC has migrated to only HTTPS, the secure hypertext protocol, and will redirect any requests for HTTP to HTTPS. However, the EDGAR system will still only accept links that reference “http://www.sec.gov/[etc]”. This causes some extra work if you are merely copying the link from a browser that is accessing the document on the EDGAR system, as the link will be copied as HTTPS. Today, we’re going to write a simple script that hooks into the validate function and lets you know if you have any HTTPS references as well as offer to fix them.