Non-secure external links won’t show when SSL is turned on

  • Resolved jhaselhofer

    (@jhaselhofer)


    5 years, 1 month ago

    Hi,

    I’m trying to add external traffic cam links from the CalTrans website to my SSL secured site. The state of California image URLs are not secure. They show up fine on the backend but won’t show up on the frontend published page. If I turn my SSL certificate off (using Really Simple SSL), they appear fine.

    I’m NOT getting mixed content warnings or trying to resolve that, which is the majority of the ‘solutions’ I’ve found. I’m just trying to get the non-secure external images and links to display on my secured site.

    I thought simple outbound external links were supposed to be unaffected by https? I’ve been pounding my head against a wall trying to get these external links to show. Any advice?

    Note: the three images that appear fine on the page are actually redirected from Oregon’s tripcheck site, which is secure, which is why the show fine. I have 24ish other links from the Caltrans site which do not.

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    5 years, 1 month ago

    This won’t be possible by the very nature of how browsers operate.

    HTTP content absolutely cannot be rendered on HTTPS pages, it’s considered by all major browsers to be a security concern.

    Thread Starter jhaselhofer

    (@jhaselhofer)

    5 years, 1 month ago

    Hi James. Thanks for the quick response. So the simple answer is I can’t do what I’m trying to do. I’d hoped this wasn’t the case.

    I don’t actually keep any sensitive information on the site, so I’m thinking about ditching the SSL certificate. Google and everyone else had made such a strong case for it no matter what kind of site you had, and I didn’t want to get dinged on my search ranking so I went for it. So far, it’s been more trouble than its worth.

    Again, thanks for the confirmation.

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