GeoTrust Seal: Internet Explorer not showing the padlock icon for security
Today, I experienced a very weird issue with a site using GeoTrust seal on Internet Explorer. One of my site was showing the padlock icon only for a few seconds and then it would disappear. Additionally, Internet Explorer wasn't showing the security warning "this page has both secure and insecure items."
So after investigating I found the issue to be related to a mod_rewrite redirect. Basically all requests were being redirected to a new URL and the image on my site was using the old URL.
The fix was easy, once the problem was identified. I simply added the following lines to my .htaccess file.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !gif$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !jpg$
RewriteRule ^store/(.*)$ http://url.com/store2/$1 [L,QSA,R=301]
The above site was working fine with Firefox.
Shouldn't IE show warning if it experiences such a situation, instead of simply removing the padlock?
by Frank @ 9:56 AM
2 comments
2 Comments:
Saw something similar, but am using a Thawte cert. Tried the fix, but it didn't work for me. Do i need to alter something in the text to pertain to my particular store?
I have a similar need and thought your existing code might could help me.
I have a domain hosted, let's call it toplevel.com. When I registered the domain, it forced me to register www.toplevel.com. Normally that would be fine, but I keep my images at a machine called images.toplevel.com. The images don't need to be SSL'd, but unless you disable certain warnings (which is a bit much to ask of my website users), you get a suite of errors on every page load that has graphics (basically every page). I was thinking I could use a rewrite rule that basically replaces "https://images.toplevel.com" with "http://images.toplevel.com", while still maintaining the "https://www.toplevel.com" or "https://forum.toplevel.com" or whatever.
What do you think?
Post a Comment
<< Home