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

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After reading the comments, I realized what
was causing the problem. I am testing a new
page on a secure web site. But I left my
base anchor specification to point to a file on
my local "C" drive.

By changing my new page's HREF in the element to point back to the website I was able to eliminate the nagging messages.

I have references to both HTTP and HTTPS on my
web page, all going back to the original website.
It does not cause that nagging message. It probably (among other causes) occurs if the page has a reference is to some location outside of the website from which the origianl page comes.

I tried all of the client side settings for Internet Explorer in these articles and none of it worked. What did fix the problem was re-creating the user's profile on the machine. I realized this after logging myself into the workstation and let the user login to the sites that were getting the error and the error did not re-occur

I tried the readers' suggestion to change the 'mixed content' setting. It worked great! Thanks - this has been a nuisance with that annoying message on Amazon.

I agree with the developer in that sometimes this is unavoidable and not necessarily bad design. This happens with google maps for me too.

To resolve in IE7 with google maps issue, I have added both the main site AND the "nonsecure" site to trusted zones, and set the option appropriately.

This means my trusted zones contains

https://mydomain/
http://maps.google.com/

This means unchecking the "sites in this zone require https" option.

Doesn't work in IE 6.0.3790 - happens for me with a site that is in a Trusted zone, and for Trusted Sites, showing Mixed Content is already set to "Enable" (I checked). Need another theory.

Ok, I am receiving the same dreaded message however as we are affliated with the Government, our Internet Security settings have been disabled. Now I have checked all through the source code (HTML, CSS and Javascript files) and all references to items are either relative or if they are absolute, they are https://.....

Any suggestions? Please

Yes, in Internet Explorer the security tab is blocked and I cannot change any settings. What am I to do next?

Hi All,
I was able to get rid of the problem. Following are my comments or suggestions on this -
1. If at all you are including other jsp, js, images and css files, do not specify the full URL like "http:\\ ... ". Try giving the relative path / context path.
2. If you are using IFRAME, donot miss to specify SRC attribute or leaving it empty. Give some blank page url atleast or hide it in the page.
3. Changing the IE Settings to eliminate the alert does help, but this is not a correct solution. Client may come back and say he is not ready to do this. And more over what if the application is being used by 1000+ users. You cannot just shoot an email to all and because of these settings, they cannot view alerts from other secured sites too.

How can i make disable this messages by programming in VB.NET.

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