Re: http->https->http redirection causes browser to show alert dialog

On 03/13/2003 8:49 AM, Chris Hewitt (g0pae@manordat.demon.co.uk) wrote: > Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote: > >> The problem I am facing is that the flow of event is: >> >> http -> https -> http >> >> and this causes IE and Netscape to put up an alert box telling >> users that they are leaving a secured site. > > This is normal and is the browser deciding to do it. In most browsers > this is configurable (you can turn it off) but it is on by default. I > feel this is good behaviour for a browser. Besides suggesting to your > users that they turn this off (but that would affect all sites the > browser visits), I can only suggest you use SSL for all the pages, or none. Has anyone actually found a way to turn off this 'feature' in IE 5 or 6 for Windows? I haven't found an option to do this in 6.0.2800. On 03/13/2003 7:46 AM, Jean-Christian Imbeault (jc@mega-bucks.co.jp) wrote: > Is there a way around this? The messages are annoying at best and > probably scary to users ... I'm having the same issue. The only workaround I've found is to redirect to a secure page that uses some combination of JavaScript, refreshing via <meta> and plain links. Browsers don't seem to think these kinds of redirects are worthy of alerts. Pablo