Installing SSL trust logos

[cpowell1]

I ran into the same problem discussed in this thread about the Comodo TrustLogo not working in IE6. (In summary, the mouseover popup looks weird on non-SSL pages and you get an error on SSL pages.)

I created a test page with nothing but the logo on it and it worked fine. So I started adding bits of Zen Cart until I was able to break it. It didn't take long.

This is the problem:

<base href="<?php echo (($request_type == 'SSL') ? HTTPS_SERVER . DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG : HTTP_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG ); ?>" />

Or, to complicate things a bit less:

<base href="https://www.mysite.com" />

I opened a ticket with their tech department who got back to me the next day with the info that IE6 doesn't like the base tag written that way. The simple fix was rewriting the tag like so:

<base href="https://www.mysite.com"></base>

Everything works fine now!

I'm an encyclopedia of browser quirks (I've been coding since back around NS2 days... (where is that smiley for feeling old? :-) and I had no idea about this one. I'd like to publicly state how impressed I am that they DID know about this and were able to help me so quickly. I asked them to add the issue to their knowledgebase.

[Merlinpa1969]

If that were the case then there would be issues across the board since thats how all of zencarts links are created

but on the bright side its kool that you got it to work

[cpowell1]

If that were the case then there would be issues across the board since thats how all of zencarts links are created

I use IE6 for development and testing and haven't noticed any problems with anything else in the cart. Just some combination of writing the base href tag that way (without a separate closing tag) and the TrustLogo code Comodo uses was causing the logo popup not to work right. No idea...

[ckosloff]

Are you saying that line 39 in html_header.php:
<base href="<?php echo (($request_type == 'SSL') ? HTTPS_SERVER . DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG : HTTP_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG ); ?>" />
should be re-written as:
<base href="<?php echo (($request_type == 'SSL') ? HTTPS_SERVER . DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG : HTTP_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG ); ?>"></base>
And that would solve the hover issues on SSL of IE6?

[cpowell1]

Are you saying that line 39 in html_header.php:
<base href="<?php echo (($request_type == 'SSL') ? HTTPS_SERVER . DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG : HTTP_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG ); ?>" />
should be re-written as:
<base href="<?php echo (($request_type == 'SSL') ? HTTPS_SERVER . DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG : HTTP_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG ); ?>"></base>
And that would solve the hover issues on SSL of IE6?

That would be it, yes.

[ckosloff]

I'm asking because I can only test it live, and I would have to uninstall Corner of Trust and re-install the contrib to test it, everything on the live site.
However, if you have tested it and it works, I will give you credit for the fix and publish an updated version of the contrib.
BTW, strange that Comodo came up with the fix immediately.
My ticket has been open and on hold for weeks now.
Maybe they don't like me, I pestered them too much on this issue.

[cpowell1]

I'm asking because I can only test it live, and I would have to uninstall Corner of Trust and re-install the contrib to test it, everything on the live site.

I'm not using the contrib, I just installed the logo using Comodo's instructions, so I'm not sure what the issues are there. You shouldn't have to do anything to the Comodo code itself, though, just add a closing base tag in the Zen Cart header. Comodo didn't do anything except tell me to add that, so it wasn't really them coming up with a fix, it was just them telling me what I needed to fix.

As far as the speed of the response, maybe it was because I determined that it was being caused by the base tag? If I'd just gone in and said their logo wasn't working on Zen Cart, they'd have no idea where to begin, probably.