Re: Security warning

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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


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