secure lock not showing in internet explorer

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secure lock not showing in internet explorer

My site is secure, but the lock just ain't there

jdubo79

7:26 pm on Oct 18, 2004 (gmt 0)

I just set up a secure server on my website, however, when I access a secure page, I am getting the https in front of the URL, but the lock in internet explorer does not appear.

Can anyone help me out at all?

If you would like to know the URL, please sticky me.

Thanks in advance.

Raymond

7:42 pm on Oct 18, 2004 (gmt 0)

That is because some of the items on your page are loaded from http, instead of https.

Just make sure all images and other related files are loaded from https, the padlock will be shown.

jdubo79

7:51 pm on Oct 18, 2004 (gmt 0)

Unfortunately that is not the problem, I have checked and rechecked again, and everything on the page is on a secure server.

bunltd

8:09 pm on Oct 18, 2004 (gmt 0)

Are you using frames? That can keep it from showing up...

LisaB

Rugles

8:47 pm on Oct 18, 2004 (gmt 0)

I had this question about our ecommerce site about two weeks ago.
It turned out that this person had acidentaly turned off the status bar on the IE browser.

So... are you seeing the lock symbol on any site you visit?
If not, go to View and put a check mark for status bar.

mt_biker

7:09 pm on Oct 21, 2004 (gmt 0)

jdubo79,
I had the exact, seemingly, same issue (https, yes...secure lock, no) not too long ago. The solution was to remove any and all http strings in my global header and footer.

In my case, one of the http strings was part of an absolute url to my style sheet as in the following example...
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.mysite.com/styles.css">
</head>
...this I changed to <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../styles.css">

I also had an http string in an absolute url in the <body> of my page as in...
<a href="http://www.mysite.com">
...which I changed to <a href="../index.htm">

That solved the problem for me, much to my surprise I might add. Best of luck.