HTTPS:// vs. Lock

[dinohaven]

I am curious to know if I am secure? I currently have the https://, but not the lock. I also get the popup message saying that parts of the page are not secure.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Thanks,

 

Christopher Morrow

[damp3]

hi

 

if you have included any images in your site, the url for that images must be starting with https:// to

 

example

 

http://www.mydomain.com/catalog/pic1.jpg is not secured

 

https://www.mydomain.com/catalog/pic1.jpg this is secured

 

then you wont get any pop up saying nonsecure items.

 

 

Good Luck

[Chris Dunning]

https means that your server is encrypting the files that it sends out. If there's no lock in the browser then something is going wrong - as suggested above, you may have a hard-coded image that's pulling from http instead of https, that's the most common cause. Do a view->source on the page in question then ctrl-f for "http://" and see what you find. An outgoing link to an http page is not a problem, but an incoming image is.

 

To find it, take things out and see if it fixes the problem - ie, remove the left column, load the page. If the problem stays, remove the right column. If the problem goes away, you know it's somewhere in the right column - take out all the boxes in the right column, then replace them one by one until you find the box that's a problem.

[AlanR]

The most obvious cause is the import of insecure items as others have mentioned but there are other causes and without a link to the site they're hard to find.