Coming Soon: HTTPS Checker
We’ve all had that frustrating time in our lives when we add an SSL certificate to our websites and realise that the SSL certificate is invalid. The error states it is because “Connection Partially Encrypted”. What happens is you have spent all that money on encrypting your website, only to lose your nice blue/green bar and unbroken padlock.
The most common cause for this scenario is image paths.
Believe it or not but images that are statically linked (http://mydomain.com/images/myimage.jpg) most often are the culprits. The reason is that the switch to https cannot locally source this image – it needs to break the encryption to get the image from an unencrypted location.
To resolve this we use a fluid path or a root path such as “../images/myimage.jpg” or “/image/myimage.jpg”.
Here at Ecommerce Web Design, we are looking into creating a tool that will let you check for this error as it can be very frustrating searching through your code on all your web pages looking for statically linked images.
For those of you interested please post what you would like this checker to include in the comment form below. It really is in its beta stages at the moment but we will be rolling it out within the next week or so simply looking for image tags with static links. We will later search javascript files and css files for the same problem.
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