How To Fix The Warning: This Page Contains Both Secure and Non-Secure Items
Posted on May 6th, 2010 in Everyday Tips, Web Development | Comments Off
You installed an SSL certificate and you keep getting that pesky warning about how some of the content on the page is not secure or unauthenticated. Here’s what you do to find the offending content.
- Visit the page in your web browser
- View the source code for the page
- Search the source code for src
Click through all the instances of src and look for items that are sourced through http:// rather than https://. Look at all your images, javascripts, stylesheets, etc. They all need to be pulled through https:// in order for your page to be totally secure and for that warning to go away. Internet Explorer is particularly finicky about this message so be sure to check your site in IE to make sure you don’t get this message: ‘This Page Contains Both Secure and Non-Secure Items‘ The FireFox message that means the same thing is ‘Warning: Contains Unauthenticated Content‘ this is the same problem. Just make sure your page is pulling all it’s resources through https:// and that is how you fix the error about ‘secure and non-secure’ items on your SSL pages.
