Bizarre SSL Weirdness

[yomama360]

I have an issue where sometimes my site switches to HTTPS mode just fine and sometimes it gives the error:

“Website certified by unknown authority”

 

I found a weird pattern. It seems to work totally fine on my IE browser. Firefox is where the weirdness is. Try this at home:

 

1) In Firefox (or try IE too and see if you get the same thing). Jump straight into a page of my site under the root. ie.

http://honuhawaiiactivities.com/luaus/ (my version of the “catalog” directory).

You can surf around a bit, but DONT GO TO THE ROOT.

Then try clicking “my account” or “checkout” that should take you to https mode. You should see the SSL error warning.

(dont accept it before moving to step 2)

 

2) ok, now try going to the root of the site:

http://honuhawaiiactivities.com

or just surf there for a second by clicking “home”. The after that you can get to the https page without the error. Even if you surf off the index page.

 

3) say “far out, that IS weird and bizarre.” You may have to kill your cookies to try again.

 

Anybody have an idea on what is causing this?

Ive checked my configs and as far as I can tell they are ok. The company that issued the cert just gives me stupid answers, so i dont think they know either. And it was working fine a few months ago.

[usernamenone]

I found nothing bizar at all. That is how it works. You should only have ssl pages when you either log in and check out. If you move from log in to the index you are out of the ssl but if you go back and start the check out process you are back in the ssl.

 

Both browser are following that mode. IE sometimes gets confused and will leave you in ssl.