We have a HTTPS website and I need to display a HTTP website (any external website) into my page. The website used iframe for displaying it. We realised that it doesn't work in mozilla firefox. We are getting a "mixed content" error. I am searching for an alternative to iframe now. I understand that it makes no sense to bypass the security warning. We also do not want to change any browser settings as it is possible that all the users may not have permissions to change browser settings. Using tags like <embed> or redirecting in <div> tag also gives the same problem.
Is there any way to do this in C# code and not using HTML and scripting.
Response.redirect() does not work in our application. I do not have a problem if the page is redirected but I prefer a dialog/popup window for the external website to display.
This is simply a security consideration. Your HTTPS site is not truly safe when using mixed content.
Use HTTPS for your external site, period.
As Mozilla suggests:
The best strategy to avoid mixed content blocking is to serve all the content as HTTPS instead of HTTP.
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I have a https site and need to show content from other sites that may or may not be themselves https. Predictably enough, I'm getting warning messages like this in the console...
"Mixed Content: The page at 'https://www.example.com/' (my server) was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure image 'http://www.aninsecuredomain.com/image.jpg'. (not my server) This content should also be served over HTTPS."
(not to the mention the fact that I no longer see the little padlock displayed properly in most browsers who now consider my site's network insecure).
I've read through a bunch of posts on SO on this topic, but I can't seem to find a definitive answer on whether there's anything I can do when I don't own the external servers (so can't guarantee they'll have a https version). Appreciate any thoughts on whether this is possible, and if so how I could go about achieving it!
When you need to include content from another domain in an https webpages you can:
Make the owner of the other domain commit to https by explaining him the security reason behind that
Proxy the content through your website or host it yourself (if you have right to do it)
(If you don't see the padlock anymore it's because your page is no longer secure because it include insecure elements that could have been tempered: it's not they "consider my site's network insecure", it is indeed insecure!)
You should use the // prefix. (instead of http[s]://)
On an https page, the secure version wil be loaded.
On on a plain http page, the plain http version will be loaded.
Edit your theme replacing every occurence of http://fonts.googleapis.com/... with //fonts.googleapis.com/...
I am running a site. Some of its pages are not working in Firefox, but work perfect in Chrome. In Firefox it shows me a gray shield next to the URL and when I click on that shield and manually click on disable protection on this page then my page works fine. So now the problem is that there are many users on my site, and some of them don't know how to do it so I want to handle it on my site so its users don't need to do that.
How can I do it? I Googled and found a setting of Firefox in about:config named security.mixed_content.block_active_content. If we set it to false then it works. So is there a way to do it programmatically or other way so that users just view that page without seeing that shield?
As I understand it, content that is blocked by default by Firefox now is http content that is accessed from an https page. Common types of content that fall foul of this are external stylesheets and images.
As far as I am aware the way to prevent the problem on your site is to make sure that if a page is served by https, any and all other files that it references are also served by https.
Hi Friends,
The reason you see this error in Mozilla Firefox is because your
website is a Mixed Box that is, your website has many internal links
which are not SSL protected.
In order to avoid this error from showing up in Mozilla Firefox you
will have to make sure all the internal links on your website are SSL
protected.
So, Use https:// in your page not http://
I hope I was clear enough in answering your query.
firefox has blocked content that isn't secure means there are some contents on your website are not secure.
I had same issue as my fonts were downloading with http://google.apis.something instead of https
Then I change to //google.apis.something and problem get solved.
To know what is not secure in you website use this link
Here's how I make develop a bookmarklet, get the input control value on web page ,
I write a javascript function, add the bookmarklet to my browser, load my test web page, is test the bookmarklet, the result is ok,
but then i test the bookmarklet on HTTPS website ,the bookmarklet can not get the input control value, why? the bookmarklet doesn't work on the HTTPS website?? Is there any way to make the bookmarklet work on https sites?
3 questions :
Why cant you get the input value : there is no reason why it does not work, almost certainly you are looking for the wrong id.
Do bookmarklets work on HTTPS : absolutely, HTTPS is not the problem
Can I make it work on https sites : if you provide a code sample, we might be able to tell you what is wrong with it.
I know this is a pretty old question, but since I came across it while searching for a similar problem, I will add my thoughts. If you wrote your own bookmarklet, this is most likely caused by your bookmarklet trying to access insecure content. If you have other static content that your bookmarklet references on your own server, such as HTML, JS, CSS, or image files, the browser will block that content from loading. This is because of the Same Origin Policy. This question is also discussed in this question. If you, or someone else viewing this is having the same problem, attempt to serve your content up as https or access only other content that is https.
We are grabbing our feed at feedburner by using the jquery jGFeed plugin.
this works great until the moment our users are on a httpS:// page.
When we try to load the feed on that page the user gets the message that there is mixed conteent, protected and unprotected on the page.
A solution would be to load the feed on https, but google doesn't allow that, the certificate isn't working.
$.jGFeed('httpS://feeds.feedburner.com/xxx')
Does anyone know a workaround for this. The way it functions now, we simply cannot server the feed in our pages when on httpS
At this time Feedburner does not offer feeds over SSL (https scheme). The message that you're getting regarding mixed content is by design; in fact, any and all content that is not being loaded from a secured connection will trigger that message, so making sure that all content is loaded over SSL is really your only alternative to avoid that popup.
As I mentioned, Feedburner doesn't offer feeds over SSL, so realistically you'll need to look into porting your feed to another service that DOES offer feeds over SSL. Keep in mind what I said above, however, with respect to your feed's content as well. If you have any embedded content that is not delivered via SSL then that content will also trigger the popup that you're trying to avoid.
This comes up from time to time with other services that don't have an SSL cert (Twitter's API is a bit of a mess that way too.) Brian's comment is correct about the nature of the message, so you've got a few options:
If this is on your server, and the core data is on your server too, then you've got end to end SSL capabilities; just point jGFeed to the local RSS feed that FeedBurner's already importing.
Code up a proxy on your server to marshall the call to Feedburner and return the response over SSL.
Find another feed service that supports SSL, and either pass it the original feed or the Feedburner one.
i have started using WordPress paid theme Schema for my several blogs. In general, it is a nice theme, fast and SEO friendly. However, since my blogs are all on HTTPS, then I noticed that if I had a widget of (Google Feedburner) in the sitebar. The chrome will show a security error for any secure page with an insecure form call on the page.
To fix this, it is really simple,
you would just need to change the file widget-subscribe.php located at /wp-content/themes/schema/functions/ and replace all “http://feedburner.google.com” to “https://feedburner.google.com”.
Save the file, and clear the cache, then your browser will show a green padlock.
and i fix this in my this blog www.androidloud.com
I am developing web pages which reference external links/images/stylesheets etc. I have 1 page which loads fine in HTTPS, but then when I apply different external styles, some of the external styles cause a warning "Contains unauthenticated content"
Don't get me wrong, I understand WHAT this means, but I can't see any reference to any HTTP requests in View source, Firebug, Live HTTP Headers or in the View Page Info > Media window.
Does anyone have any tips or ideas of plug ins or tools which can identify exactly which items Firefox is not happy with?
Unfortunately this page is not live on the internet so I can't show it to you.
Thanks
You could, theoretically, use a proxy that just logs all requests and redirects them to the server. Of course, that is a very roundabout way of doing this :)
I have used Proxomitron and this showed the file!
Use FireFox to see the media assets. Click on the lock on the Status Bar when you are on a secure page, then Media.