Re: Security warning

On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 16:55 -0400, tedd wrote: > At 8:49 PM +0100 9/22/08, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > >On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 14:48 -0400, tedd wrote: > > > > > I suspect that the purpose of this warning is to alert the user when > >> they are taken from a https directory to a http directory. > >> > >> Now my question is "Can I turn off that security warning?" or find a > > > way around it? > > > > > > >I think that warning is built into the browsers that recognise you are > >moving from to a non-secure version of the same domain. If you give your > >users some kind of hint that this may happen it should alleviate their > >fears. > > Ash: > > That's what I suspected and told the client -- however, the client > seems to think there should be a way to turn that off. > > I told the client that it was a browser thing to help protect users > and stop evil-programmers from taking the user from a secured site to > an unsecured site without telling the user. But, I just wanted to > have my understanding confirmed. > > Thanks, > > tedd > > I think it can be turned off on the browser in question, so you could turn it off on your clients browser and stop them making silly requests ;) Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk