Security Window problem with https (1 Viewer)

[hermie]

Hey,
You know the way HTTPS can produce security dialogs like "This page contains secure and non-secure itmes ..." ? Well for some reason one of our clients says that a loading window of ours (we run e-lessons) is blocking this modal window and they cannot proceed any further. Could there be anything in our code preventing this box from appearing? Is there any way to explicitly make this window appear on top? The client has refused to alter security settings. Any help would be greatly appreciated.Cheers

 

[pete]

is not loading HTTP resources from an HTTPS page not an option?

 

[hermie]

is not loading HTTP resources from an HTTPS page not an option?

don't think so.there is so many http references in our code but the client launches from a path using https. Ideally, we would like a content launch path using http but the client is insisting on their current setup. have you ever had this problem Pete? Are you familiar with SumTotal/ToolBook?

 

[Bladez]

don't think so.there is so many http references in our code but the client launches from a path using https. Ideally, we would like a content launch path using http but the client is insisting on their current setup. have you ever had this problem Pete? Are you familiar with SumTotal/ToolBook?

I don't think you can avoid this dialog box. Its part of the browser security - so you probably can't access it programmatically. Changing all the references to relative urls should solve the problem. Then the resources will be downloaded through https. I can't see any other option

 

[pete]

don't think so.there is so many http references in our code but the client launches from a path using https. Ideally, we would like a content launch path using http but the client is insisting on their current setup. have you ever had this problem Pete? Are you familiar with SumTotal/ToolBook?

god no

 

[hermie]

god no

 

[hermie]

I don't think you can avoid this dialog box. Its part of the browser security - so you probably can't access it programmatically. Changing all the references to relative urls should solve the problem. Then the resources will be downloaded through https. I can't see any other option

thanks bladez.yea we are looking into changing references to relative urls.the weird thing is they plan on just clicking 'Yes' to view nonsecure items yet they won't launch lessons using http (there are no transaction or any such things involved). The problem is one of the security dialogs appears below our Lesson Loading page, so their users are just sitting there wondering why nothing is happening. Any ideas why this modal window would not appear on top? I can't figure it out why. If we have no resolution to this we'll have to try and eradicate the https conflict issues.cheers

 

[Bladez]

thanks bladez.yea we are looking into changing references to relative urls.the weird thing is they plan on just clicking 'Yes' to view nonsecure items yet they won't launch lessons using http (there are no transaction or any such things involved). The problem is one of the security dialogs appears below our Lesson Loading page, so their users are just sitting there wondering why nothing is happening. Any ideas why this modal window would not appear on top? I can't figure it out why. If we have no resolution to this we'll have to try and eradicate the https conflict issues.cheers

Is this window a pop-up window launched from the main window? If so, perhaps the Javascript to launch it is being executed after the security window has been displayed, meaning that it is overlaying the security window. Just a guess though.....

 

[hermie]

Is this window a pop-up window launched from the main window? If so, perhaps the Javascript to launch it is being executed after the security window has been displayed, meaning that it is overlaying the security window. Just a guess though.....

yea probably.we use Javascript pop-ups from a launcher page for our e-lessons. Causes lots of shit.

it appears changing the http references in the code to https was not as big an issue as i was led to believe.i was out on friday and it's fixed now.thanks for all your help!