Getting 'Do you want to view only the webpage...' message - re: https connection

[largomike1]

Background: Zencart 1.3.8 (haven't upgraded yet).
I've done a fair amount of customizations and I've installed many add-ons.

I noticed recently I am getting the dreaded message: Do you want to view only the webpage content that was delivered securely? in IE8 when I navigate to a product review page in https. Normally, you wouldn't view the product review page in https. However when you finish creating a new review (logged in), you are redirected to the view page in https. That's when I get the error message. I've looked for http references in 'view source' of the page, and it looks like all references are relative references or https. I've also used HTTPWatch and all references are in https. I'm stumped. My guess is it must be a CSS or javascript http reference, but I can't find one.

Firefox and Chrome work fine with no warnings.

You don't have to create a review in order to reproduce the problem. All you have to do is view one of our reviews in https to get the warning (in IE8). Here is a link to one of our reviews:

https://pursebling.com/index.php?mai...&reviews_id=11

Thanks for any help you can provide!

[mprough]

There is no reason to secure your product pages... only checkout should be secured.

Your login page appears in IE w/o an unsecured error.

~Melanie

[Ajeh]

As that page triggers the secure error in IE after the login ... can you test what happens if you turn off the Left Column and see if that changes anything ...

I am not seeing anything obvious off the top of my head, but it could be something there or something in the footer to check for ...

If you switch to the Classic Template, does that stop happening?

[largomike1]

To Linda,

Thanks for checking into my problem. I tried your suggestion of switching to the basic default template, and it works without the error. That's good. However, I still don't know what is different between my template and the default one that is causing the problems. Besides adding all of my changes to the default template one thing at a time, I am still stumped as to how to resolve this. The HTTPWatch tool doesn't see any HTTP resources. Maybe there is some other tool that can see what IE8 is seeing as an HTTP resource. I'll see if I can find something like that. Thanks.

[Ajeh]

Did you try using your template and turning off first the Left Column then the Right Column to see if there is a change?

[largomike1]

Solved the problem! I tried your suggestions of eliminating the column (thanks again for your suggestions). Unfortunately it did not help. I had a hunch it was the LIGHTBOX add-on that was causing the trouble, but I needed an easy way of eliminating that without uninstalling the whole add-on.

You can turn off the LIGHTBOX feature, but I still got the errors. So I tried this trick -and I came up with this idea myself!

1- I opened the page in the browser (and got the error message).
2- I viewed the source (right click, view source...).
3- I saved the source as an htm file in the root folder of the website (on my local pc).
4- In the browser, I navigated to the htm file.
5- The file looks just like a regular zencart page, but its really a static htm file.
6- I edited the HTM file, line by line, I removed javascript and/or CSS sections I suspected might be causing the problem. Each time re-retrieving the file until the IE8 warning did NOT come up.
7- It wound up being a combination of LIGHTBOX javascript files.
Eureka!
Now, I needed to remove the Lightbox feature from the product review page ( I really don't need it there). So I removed the following file from each of these folders:
jscript_zen_lightbox.php

- includes\modules\pages\product_review
- includes\modules\pages\product_review_info
- includes\modules\pages\product_review_write

That did the trick. Thanks again. I hope my description can help others solve similar problems.

[Ajeh]

Thanks for the update that you got this working and for posting the details on the fix that worked for you ...