There's an EBSCO service issue about this, SI 154875, that you can ask to be 
added to. I actually checked up on this the other day but there was no update. 
Ridiculous, right? If you look in developer tools, you see that the jackets 
come in with http:// explicitly declared.

Will Sakai allow the search box to open results in a new window? Otherwise I 
don't see any solutions unless you were to use the API instead of EBSCOhost - 
if you did that you could change the protocol in the image url before it loaded.

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Jeff Karlsen
Librarian & Library Dept Chair
Sacramento City College
(916) 558-2583
www.scc.losrios.edu/library 



-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kyle 
Breneman
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2017 1:18 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [CODE4LIB] EBSCO Discovery Service, HTTPS, and mixed content

My library uses EDS and we've enabled HTTPS for our main EDS profile.
Apparently EBSCO is using unsecured content to provide book cover images within 
EDS.  This is a problem for us because we have a customized EDS search box 
within our LMS, but Sakai, which prefers secure content, will not load search 
results from EDS.  Sakai says that there is mixed content.

Has anyone else encountered this mixed content in EDS and been frustrated by 
it? Elegant solutions?

Regards,
Kyle

P.S. I'm aware that some browsers still allow you to disable protections and 
view unsecured content, but that process is far from intuitive for most of our 
users.

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