Can I get rid of the "This page contains both secure and nonsecure items" warning?

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you can find a great guide here: http://www.wallpaperama.com/forums/windows-disable-this-page-contains-both-secure-and-nonsecure-items-t274.html

There is a really cool fix for this at http://www.htaccesselite.com/htaccess/fix-for-warning-page-contains-secure-and-nonsecure-items-vt129.html

Basically you can use mod_rewrite in an htaccess file to internally redirect https:// to http:// so that you can post https://x.com/image.gif to eliminate the warning message, but the server will internally request http://x.com/image.gif instead!

Thanks Davido! Worked beautifully on the Google Sitemaps. Every page would bring up the prompt and was very annoying.

Hi. Be sure to check your external stylesheets for non-secure references to images.

For example, we were using a stylesheet (with a https page) that loaded http://www.csun.edu/images/arrow.gif as a separator in a list. Changing that to ../images/arrow.gif made the annoying message go away in IE.

The solution our company has entered into its FAQ is as follows --

CAUSE: The page you are attempting to view is a secured site (note the https in the URL prefix) but it contains unsecured data.

SOLUTION:
1. When you receive the error message, click Yes.
2. In Internet Explorer, go to Tools, Internet Options, Security tab; make sure that in Select a Web content zone... that Internet is selected.
3. Click Custom Level and scroll down about half way to Display mixed content in the Miscellaneous section.
4. Change it from Prompt to Enable.
5. Click OK, Yes, OK. The change should take effect immediately.

This happens if you use secure google, https://mail.google.com/ but if you search the page, there are no "http://" connections present....so as someone pointed out, they must be linking to an "unsecure" image within one of their .js or .css files...

Downhill - you are a star. Thanks mate. Worked perfectly.

Thank you downhill. Now I'll need double times less clicks.

great help, thank you downhill!

Worked like a dream, Downhill, thanks.

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