Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: Templating System and HTTPS

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2: Re: Templating System and HTTPS (response to 1)
Posted by Brad Duell on 02/06/04 11:08 PM
What do the references to the graphics look like in master?  Relative (i.e. "/graphics/mygif.gif") or absolute (i.e. "http://www.mydomain.com/graphics/mygif.gif")?

I'm guessing the page is getting something from an insecure site via the master.

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3: Re: Templating System and HTTPS (response to 2)
Posted by Jose Mendez on 02/07/04 12:04 AM
There are only two graphics used in the entire template and they are specified with relative paths "/graphics/fsd/fsd_title.gif" and "/graphics/misc/logo.gif"

After reading your post I was doing some testing on Mozilla and it does show the secure icon, so it seems that IE is the only having the problem.  However it does get solved by removing the <master> tag from the file.  One thing I noticed is that while the IE is waiting for the request to come back it shows the secure icon, but as soon as the page is loaded the icon goes away.

any more ideas? and btw thanks for your reply ...

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4: Re: Templating System and HTTPS (response to 2)
Posted by Jose Mendez on 02/07/04 12:22 AM
Brad, you are right, it does have to do with the graphics in the page.  I turned the security alerts on IE and when it loads the graphics it warns that we're leaving the secure connection and when I choose not to continue the page loads with no graphics but the secure icon shows.  This kind of sucks ...  does this mean I'm gonna have to specify absolute paths to make sure they get requested using https? ... hmmm, I hope there's a more general solution.