[PLUG] Secure Web Pages Without Indicators?

Bill Ensley bill at bearprinting.com
Sun Aug 5 05:27:45 UTC 2007


Rich,

Are you running in a frame?  if so, do you have a "blank" source for part of
the frame?

I have seen this happen when some part of the page is referenced to a 
non-secure
url.

What is the URL, and I will look at it.

-Bill Ensley
www.bearprinting.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich Shepard" <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
To: <plug at pdxlinux.org>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 9:54 AM
Subject: [PLUG] Secure Web Pages Without Indicators?


>   For those of you who administer e-commerce web systems: how is it 
> possible
> for a page to be encrypted with SSL and still display the open lock with 
> red
> slash on the address bar?
>
>   I thought that all secured pages changed the background color of the
> address bar to beige/yellow and the icon to a closed lock. But, I've come
> across several sites -- all running on some Microsoft OS and 
> applications --
> that do not provide this security assurance.
>
> Rich
>
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