Both actually, but the root cause of this error is poor website design. Whoever designed your site, didn't do a good job at linking all the required content to be covered by the ssl to be secured (https). The reason why your visitors are seing this is because there is a one of more items that are included in the page that is not secured ( https ). It could be a picture image, or a file that you are linking to thats not secured.

How to resolve this.

If you are a user and want to get rid of the popup window,
you always get, you can follow the steps in this tutorial: CLICK HERE TO SEE TUTORIAL

But if you are a webmaster, you need to troubleshoot your desing code (html, php, etc..). Check these items:

1. Load the page that is giving the error, and look at the code. these are the most common reason why you may be getting the popup:

a. A link to an image where the images is not secured. To fix this, make sure use https protocol:

Example: In my code i found this:
     Code:
You need to change it to:
     Code:

b. Another way to cause an error is to link to a style sheet with the link tag:
     Code:Is this example, just make sure you change the protocol from http to https

c. Linking to style sheets that have image properties can also create this error. For examplke, if i am linking to my style sheet with https, but one of the properties in one of my style sheet declarations has an image, make sure its using the https protocol: for example, when i open my style.css, once of my styles is this:
     Code:
The above style will cause the nonsecure popup because my dark.gif image is not using the https protocol, so to make sure, i would change the style to look like this:
     Code:

Now you get the idea. So make sure you are using https protocol on all your page content.

Hope this helps

Thanks to Webune Support for their contribution - webune.com

Thanks,

That worked!!, I changed my css background image to https and now i am not seeing the error anymore. I will monitor for the next few days to see if any visitors report problems.

I am trying to get rid of this same message ("This Page Contains both secure and non-secure items"). None of the described solutions work for me. I have a SSL web page (https) that displays image files from the local hard drive, of the format:

<img src="C:TestSample Jpegs640x480alaska.jpg" border="1" align="center" width="100" height="75">

How can I make this web page display without seeing the warning message?

all web pages on the internet run on a protocol called HTTP. From what I know, it started from the Unix world, However, looking at your<img> tag, you have the backlash ( ) character in your img tag, the is a primarly a windows path separator, unix on the other hand uses the forward slash ( / ) as a path separator. its the same as when you typ a url in your browser, you would type for example: http://www.wallpaperama.com NOT http:\www.wallpaperama.com. (go to the bottom of this post to see more information about this subject)

With that in mind, i would advise you to change your code:

Chang From This:

     Code:

Change It To:


     Code:

* assuming that your file (example: index.html) is in the "Test" directory

* * * * * * * * * * more information on the subjet: * * * * * * * * * *
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DOS 2. When directories were introduced. Many of the functions
were based on unix, down to a NUL terminated filename and the
name "creat".

But DOS 1 was modelled on CP/M which used "/" as a command
line option flag. You couldn't use a "/" in the DOS shell because
it would be interpreted as the flag. You could change the flag using
a DOS command, eg, to use "-" instead, but that was disabled in
the 3.x days; for good reason.

Hence, the low-level DOS commands (since 2.0) would take
both / and as separators, but some codes did their own
filename munging and would not.

Hopefully I can revive this thread as I am too having the same problem of NEEDING to display an image from the LOCAL HARD DRIVE not my web server on a secured web page. How this is working is we are using a scanner that the website works with. They scan in an image, the image needs to display temporarily (it is NOT stored on our server) of what they just scanned.
I need to figure out a way to get rid of this warning.. please help!

you probably need to check your code. I had the same problem with putting the relative path instead of the absolute path. The you can never go wrong with the absolute path.

Important: other case is when you use an IFRAME an omit the SRC attribute. See the link below:

http://gemal.dk/blog/2005/01/27/iframe_without_src_attribute_on_https_in_internet_explorer/

so this message ("this page contains both secure and non-secure items") is caused anytime there are relative links in a secured site?

thanks it really helpfull for working in my project.