Get the message 'This page contains both secure and nonsecure items...Do you want to display the nonsecure items? Print

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In short, this error means that there are elements in your SSL secured pages that are being accessed from a non SSL secured page. A typical example of this is an image that resides in a non-SSL protected directory. 


For example, a page that is loaded securely (via https), contains an image tag within the source code such as <img src =http://www.yyy.com/image.gif>. In this case the image is being called absolutely using the non-secure (http) protocol and will thus cause this warning. 

This type of warning can be solved by:

1.) Moving the image file to the portion of the site that is https secure, e.g., https://secure.yyy.com/image.gif; or

2.) Making the links relative to the root directory by adding a backslash before the file name as in the following example: <img src="/image.gif">. This would translate to both <img src="https://www.yyy.com/image.gif"> and <img src="http://www.yyy.com/image.gif">.


This error can also be caused by Flash code.
As an example, this line of code will cause problems when trying to view over https
codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/

As you can see, the flash code base is being loaded from a non-secure location.

Macromedia has documented a solution:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/https_error.htm

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