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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Web pages with secure and nonsecure items

I use Windows XP and IE7. Lately I've been getting a lot of popups that say: "This page contains both secure and nonsecure items. Do you want to display the nonsecure items?" Adam Bargery

Web designers often create secure pages (https://) then include links to nonsecure elements, such as images, via http. You can turn off the error message. Go to Tools, select Internet Options, and go to the Security tab. Click Custom Level, scroll down to Miscellaneous, and look for the radio button for "Display mixed content". It is set to Prompt. If you change it to Enable, nonsecure content will always be displayed. If you change it to Disable, nonsecure content cannot be displayed.

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