: How to display non-SSL images on HTTPS connection? Is it possible to embed external non-ssl webcam images (i.e.; http://www.goes.noaa.gov/GIFS/WCI8.JPG) into a site using SSL? I have a lot of

@Rambettina238

Have you tried using the url without the protocol ie //sitename.com not sitename.com This is the normal work-around.

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@Ogunnowo487

They don't show up on the sites after SSL is installed tho of course.


Because the browser issues a security warning.

The only way round this is to change all requests to HTTPS. If the site you are pulling the image off only serves content over HTTP then a way round this is to make a secure HTTPS request to a script on your server and this server-side script then makes an HTTP request to the external resource which then relays this back over HTTPS to the client (an SSL proxy).

This has been answered several times over on StackOverflow, with code samples, such as:

stackoverflow.com/questions/3011222/dealing-with-http-content-in-https-pages - this has an example using a hash in the request URL, which is a good security feature. stackoverflow.com/questions/765779/how-to-display-non-ssl-images-on-https-connection

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