![\"This](\"http:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/unsecure2.gif\" "\\"Unsecure\\"")
<\/a>The error message from IE7<\/p><\/div>\n
The usual response to this is that you’re loading images (or other media) from a non-SSL connection (hence “non-secure” items); there are also some mentions of IE not being happy about IFRAMEs without SRC= attributes (the browser assigns “about:blank” as a default SRC, which – being non-secure – flips the error); however none of these things applied in my case.<\/p>\n
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I discovered that if I turned off javascript the error disappeared, which suggested my script was problematic, but I still couldn’t find anything in the scripts which was loading any non-secure items.<\/p>\n
\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the end after much messing around it turns out that the offending script was setting object.style.background to a relative path, eg\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
myObj.style.background=”url(\/images\/mybackground.gif)”;<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Even though this will correctly resolve to an https:\/\/ address (assuming the root of the document is https:\/\/) IE can’t figure this out and moans.<\/p>\n
\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Simply adding the full path to the background solved my problem.<\/p>\n
\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
This doesn’t<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0apply to CSS files<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0setting backgrounds – you can happily have relative paths in these and all will be well.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Of course I then wondered why I hadn’t found that on the web and figured you might be looking for it too – so here it is \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So the web is full of people asking about this symptom and I hit it myself. Seemingly randomly (but consistently) IE will complain about nonsecure items in the page, with this warning message: \u00c2\u00a0 The usual response to this is that you’re loading images (or other media) from a non-SSL connection (hence “non-secure” items); there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[42,40,43,55,41],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-webdev","tag-error","tag-fix","tag-internet-explorer","tag-nonsecure-items","tag-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}