spence munsinger
artist & painter
July 6, 2008 at 11:23 pm, by munsinger
filed under technical, weblog and website | tagged errors, IE
With the new site design comes a new set of problems. I worked on screen resolution errors over the weekend. Now on trying Internet Explorer 6 I get the above error. Very annoying. I have a checklist for resolving it – this isn’t a certificate issue, at least, this is a request issue. Some part of the page loads from an http (non-secure) source, the trick is finding it, and it may be an internal page error from Internet Explorer itself – Internet Explorer considers its own error to be insecure. Possibly that’s right…
It is about as annoying as Microsoft Vista asking every second task “Do you want to allow this access?”
In Mozilla Firefox none of this occurs. I’ll try and fix it anyway, but ideally you would be using Firefox and never see this at all.
The checklist is…
This should be an interesting problem – none of the obvious code requests an insecure piece…� Hopefully I’ll have this resolved in a day or so.
On testing Opera 9.5 I found that the front page text widget won’t load the gallery effect (lightbox) – however – the painting and photography pages allow this to work perfectly… More javascript and xhtml code delving.�� “View page source” is your friend.
– munsinger
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Opera, anyway, is a positioning problem – the lightbox effect is centered on the WHOLE page, not just the visible portion.� It works in all pages, but the initial front� page buries the effect in the center of the entire web page – if you scrolled down about four screens, there it would be. The paintings.html� page is short enough to show the lightbox effect vertically centered – where the index/front page shown vertically centered is useless. �At least that problem is defined…
The secure non-secure error is a bit tougher – using fiddler in https proxy mode, NONE (really, none) of the connections made are insecure, there aren’t any missing images, no errors that should cause mixed secure/ non-secure content.� However – if I turn the lightbox plugin (javascript that enables gallery effect) off, the error disappears…� Turn it back on – the errors reappear… so somewhere in that plugin there is the creation of and actual non-secure item or the apparency of such a creation.� Very interesting.
And – disabling lightbox plugin and enabling slimbox (similar effect, but the transition effect isn’t quite as clean) removes the errors as well.� New checklist…
firefox
Opera
James Walters
I get this problem also only in connection with a lightbox variant (rgsmoothgallery extension in a Typo3 v4.2 site). After I referenced all the files for the slideshow control images with full url (https:// … ) in the css, I found that those images would display, even when I clicked on “No” in the dreaded security alert window (before they wouldn’t show, but the whole thing worked anyway) … but that didn’t stop the alert window popping up – aaaaaaaaargh … Also this security alert thing happens with IE 5, 6 and 7 (the show never loads in 5)
munsinger
I’m in the process of moving data enters – which will change how SSL works on the site – so far it looks like the lightbox plug in still causes the secure / insecure items on the page message – once the page loads as https (after loading as http or newly, for the first time with any caching cleared) the lightbox js components are still http://...
Once I get the site stable in the new facility and have a chance to look into this further I’ll post further. Very annoying.
— munsinger