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Secure and Insecure Contents in HTTPS

If your web site's secure HTTPS area includes any content such as images, javascript or whatever via standard HTTP, your visitors may well get a security warning popping up saying that the page contains secure and insecure content.

For some of your sites visitors, this rather vague and worrying statement might make them decide to abandon your checkout procedure and cost you a sale.

Often this is very easy to fix.

Simply go to the page that is triggering the error message and "View Source"

Then in the source code, search for

PLAIN TEXT
HTML:
  1. src="http://
  2.  
  3. or
  4.  
  5. src=http://

Now that you have found the offending items, you either need to remove them from your secure pages, or ensure that they are using the https:// method when the pages are being viewed by HTTPS.

that's it - dead easy :-)

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One Comments

K
May 18th, 2011

Thank You for this helpful post. However it would be even more helpful if you went into dept with tutorial for PHP HTTP/HTTPS auto-detect and overwrite as well as alternative to simply switching all the links on the website to HTTPS.
 

 

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