SSL Mixed Content errors

[Phil Illingworth]

Phil Illingworth

July 29, 2020 at 9:25 am

We had the SSL certificate renewed on contemporarybritishpainting.com a few days ago and it has thrown up an anomaly. We have a lot of pages which are being flagged as unsecured. We took it up with the hosts who installed the certificate, and their support tech ran a test on one of these pages. It returned this:
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Soft Failure
An image with an insecure url of “*Login to see link was loaded on line: 1 of *Login to see link

Errors that are reported on line 1 are generally not part of the source code. This error may be caused by an external javascript file which is writing to the page, however we are unable to reliably detect these scripts in our automated test.
Please contact us using the “Need Help?” link below if you need assistance with resolving this error.
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The test reports the same error for each of the 6 images in the gallery. Checking the link for the image URL from the gallery shows it is correct: *Login to see link – i.e. it is correctly assigned https.

The same error is being reported on many pages throughout the site. We tried to replicate producing the error by following the procedure we use to make new artist pages, but we were getting clear results. Finally we have realised that the problem appears to be confined to pages which were created using images or galleries prior to a certain date. Could it be that the theme was writing the html changing https to http at some point?

This page *Login to see link was created on July 12 and is OK, and it looks as though anything created after April or thereabouts is OK. The page showing the error above was published March 21st.

I’m guessing that an update has corrected this for new content, but I don’t know how to put it right for older content.

• This topic was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by Phil Illingworth.