IE blocks site & will not allow me to unblock

  • Thread starter Thread starter Richard Silverstein
  • Start date Start date
R

Richard Silverstein

I have a weblog in which I'm trying to display an image (album art)
from the http://images.amazon.com site. For some inexplicable reason,
IE security is blocking this site. Whenever I go to the portion of my
blog site which allows me to configure the amazon.com image, I get the
error msg:

"this page displays both secure and nonsecure items. Do you want to
display the nonsecure ones?"

I've checked off "always allow cookies from this site" and I've tried
to add images.amazon.com to my list of allowed sites. But nothing's
working & the image remains blocked.

I know I could reduce my privacy/security setting to the lowest level
& that might allow the site. But I don't want to do that if I don't
have to (I've not got it set on the Medium security level).

There must be a way to outsmart IE on this. Pls. tell me what it is.

Thanks, Richard
 
I get the error msg:
"this page displays both secure and nonsecure items. Do
Click to expand...
you want to display the nonsecure ones?"

This is a security feature. I *highly* recommend you leave
it alone and always click *No* in response to that prompt.
 
Richard Silverstein said:
I have a weblog in which I'm trying to display an image (album art)
from the http://images.amazon.com site. For some inexplicable reason,
IE security is blocking this site. Whenever I go to the portion of my
blog site which allows me to configure the amazon.com image, I get the
error msg:

"this page displays both secure and nonsecure items. Do you want to
display the nonsecure ones?"

I've checked off "always allow cookies from this site" and I've tried
to add images.amazon.com to my list of allowed sites. But nothing's
working & the image remains blocked.

I know I could reduce my privacy/security setting to the lowest level
& that might allow the site. But I don't want to do that if I don't
have to (I've not got it set on the Medium security level).

There must be a way to outsmart IE on this. Pls. tell me what it is.

Thanks, Richard
Click to expand...

This usually happens when a secure site calls images from a non-secure site.
If you trust the site click Yes or Okay. However, I recommend that you not
enter sensitive data such as credit card numbers on such a site.
 
Richard Silverstein said:
Yes, precisely what is happening: my blog website IS secure as you
said. I'm trying to link to jpgs (not to credit card or any other
secure data) fr. the Amazon.com (non secure) website. So each time I
enter the internal portion of my blog which contains these jpgs, I get
that danged message.

Typepad (my blog service) staff suggested that by going into IE
security settings and enabling the "Show mixed content" option that
this would end the messages. But I did that & they haven't ended.
NOw the Typepad staff say that there must be something wrong with my
browser settings. But I just can't believe this because I've linked
hundreds to times on several sites I own to jpgs housed on external
sites and this has never happened. Typepad is suggesting that I
switch browsers to Mozilla/Firebird, which may not be a bad idea
(though I know very little about it). But it seems like a way of
fobbing off the problem onto the browser, which I'm not sure deserves
the blame.

I have another idea...what if I upload the jpegs into my Typepad site
so that the jpgs reside within the site instead of externally to it.
Would that resolve the problem?
Click to expand...

I believe so.
 
Back
Top