Odd but valid request (for SSL secure forums)

[SimpleJoe]

Hello, just thought I'd throw this out there to help anyone who uses a secure forum hosting service with SSL (meaning their forum URL begins with https)

When clicking the Admin tab in a secure forum many browsers give an error about viewing a page with a mix of secure and insecure info -- this appears to be because the news feed from the SMF site comes through a regular http nonsecure URL.

The fix is simple: have this news feed derive from a secure https URL -- then both nonsecure and secure forums would load the page without error. Of course if you don't have access to an SSL site the fix is more daunting.

ps: i realize you can turn off this error message in the browser, but some people get wigged out when they see the error 

[Arantor]

In the Server Settings page, does it have https or http listed in front of the board URL ?

[SimpleJoe]

It has the https -- in looking at the code the insecure links popping up the error appear to be:

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="http://www.simplemachines.org/smf/current-version.js?version=SMF 1.1.11"></script>
      <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="http://www.simplemachines.org/smf/latest-news.js?language=english&amp;format=%25B+%25d%2C+%25Y%2C+%25I%3A%25M%3A%25S+%25p"></script>
      

[Arantor]

They should be only in the admin panel AFAIK.

[raylu]

Bump. This is still an issue. It's important to secure user logins through HTTPS and having a security warning on the admin panel is sort of a downer.

[Arantor]

You can secure user logins - just that URL only appears in the admin panel and it cannot be served through HTTPS.