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"Secure and nonsecure" items is most often the result of bad web page design. As a user it's difficult to avoid without lowering your guard.
Can I get rid of the "This page contains both secure and nonsecure items" warning?
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Not that I'm aware of, and not that I would want to. Not being notified is in fact a security risk when visiting sites you don't already know and trust. For the sites you do trust, the message results from bad site design on their part.
Update
Thank you to a few readers who posted a solution to avoiding the warning:
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what I do is capture the prefix of the current browser url up to the last slash, and everywhere where the url() image is specified in javascript, I place the prefix.
example:
var prefix = location.href.substring(0,location.href.lastIndexOf("/")+1); // prefix is to remove ssl warning contains nonsecure items.
cell.innerHTML = ""
The prefix has to be used everywhere. I mean EVERYWHERE a dynamic item is created using javascript and specifying the url() to an image.
Posted by: da808wiz at December 1, 2010 2:06 PMlooks like the cell.innerHTML content was stripped.
trying with lt and gt:
cell.innerHTML = "<input type=\"button\" style=\"background:url("+prefix+"images/fancybutton.jpg)\">";
Posted by: da808wiz at December 1, 2010 2:11 PMThank You, Thank You, Thank You!!!!! This warning has been driving me nuts! Apparently the setting was changed by an IE8 Upgrade? as I just started getting them from sites that I had no problem accessing in the past. Just make sure you scroll down to the " Display mixed content " section before making the change. Worked like a charm Appreciate the help.
Posted by: DesertSkunk at April 17, 2011 12:32 PMMany thanks for that tip, works brilliantly. Yahoo have messed up their home page and for days i got that error message and had to keep clicking to get rid of it. Your instructions have stopped this and stopped me getting annoyed. Many thanks
Posted by: Stu at June 1, 2011 2:27 PMDoesn't work even has error
check below;
Webpage error details
Posted by: Sunny at January 29, 2012 11:30 AMMessage: 'cell' is undefined
Line: 426
Char: 1
Code: 0