I am displaying banner ads on my website however on my https pages I now get, randomly, a warning about references to to http. These are coming from the banner ads from the coop. My suggestion would be to switch the code where it pulls the images from to be https however I went to https://www.digitalpoint.com and it looks like the security certificate is expired and it says that the certificate was issued by someone you have chosen not to trust. If the references for the images are made to https://www.digitalpoint.com then that security warning will come up and literally hinder people from purchasing and this has the potential to happen every https page there is. On our website, you can get to https whenever you have to fill out any information and then if you continue shopping you are now shopping on https on every page you go to leaving the potential Just letting you know Shawn.
Not sure what you are referring to... I'm not running any images hosted on digitalpoint.com (and definitely not https).
hmmmmm.... Where do the banner ads come from that are displayed on peoples websites? You have to upload them in the adminstrative control panel right? So I am presuming that the banner ads that are displayed from the coop are being pulled from digitalpoint.com. Right now, because you can even go to https://www.digitalpoint.com, this means that you have some type of SSL certificate on your hosting server for your website. If there wasn't you wouldn't be able to get to https://www.digitalpoint.com. It would come up page cannot be displayed. Temporarily, I use a session variable on the ASP pages that check to see if the pages are https or http. If they are https I do not display the ads.... Hopefully that will not mess up the validation process any. I will slowly be doing that will all of my pages because some of those banners thar are being pulled are coded in as http. This throws up that stupid warning in IE about referencing an insecure object on a secure page.
You shouldn't reference external sites on https pages anyways. Secure pages do not get indexed (forgive me if I'm wrong), and are typically in place for order forms and things like that. You shouldn't have to put co-op ads on your secure order forms.
We have a trailer for everything so when you put the ads into the trailer they show up no matter where the person is whether or not it is on http or https. Also when they have a form to fill out we switch them over to https. Now, if they decide that they want to continue to shop after they have filled in that form then they are now still on https throughout the website. We have all of our links relative and not hard coded.