I am getting this insecure error

[technodisney]

https://imgur.com/a/rYKsJG3

whenever I load the forums on my macbook using chrome I get this message. I dont get this error on any other device.

[PhoenixxFire]

I get something similar on my laptop when I’m trying to connect from unsecured wifi. Does it do it from other browsers? Maybe try running a malware scan on your laptop?

[darkz]

A bit of necroposting here, but anyways

The error is pretty much harmless, so you can just ignore it. But basically, on the internet, we load sites via http:// and https:// , sites with the https:// are those with SSL certificates or known to be "secure", therefore the message just means that there are things on the site being loaded from http:// instead of https://. For example, it might be an image or a javascript file etc that is being loaded from a location with http://

[technodisney]

A bit of necroposting here, but anyways

The error is pretty much harmless, so you can just ignore it. But basically, on the internet, we load sites via http:// and https:// , sites with the https:// are those with SSL certificates or known to be "secure", therefore the message just means that there are things on the site being loaded from http:// instead of https://. For example, it might be an image or a javascript file etc that is being loaded from a location with http://

Thanks for replying. I am a bit tech savvy and have actually made some websites myself.

I am just confused as to why the error comes up only on my macbook.

And regardless it doesn't look good having a public website that gives you an insecure error.

[jamonwindeyer]

Thanks for replying. I am a bit tech savvy and have actually made some websites myself.

I am just confused as to why the error comes up only on my macbook.

And regardless it doesn't look good having a public website that gives you an insecure error.

It is definitely strange - Is it all pages, or just certain pages in the site?

I've used both Chrome and Safari on my MacBook and never gotten the error, always a secure connection - Not sure why it is happening on your end!

[Slydev]

Alrighty, I took a look at this one and it should now be fixed.

Basically similes were being served with an old HTTP link as their URL is defined in its own secret area. Why it lets you define the whole URL and not just the directory they are in is a mystery too me (maybe for offsite loading?) but yeah that has been sorted.

Originally we had set cloudflare to force HTTPS on all links before the fact, but that was causing pretty big issues with post data not being sent across on legacy HTTP requests so we changed it to change to HTTPs after which braught in this issue. Its good though, I got to snoop around the forum code a bit and stumbled across something else that had been causing a headache for me for the last 6 weeks which is super lucky!

Anyways let me know if that fixes the issue for you (or if it doesn't!)

Side note: Chrome on mac is a different build than chrome on Windows. This is a major headache for developers like me as clients will sometimes have issues that only happen on mac chrome and I have to jump on a mac to debug them specifically. This can be a reason why you only get bugs on mac chrome and not PC chrome.