Best guess is that they are clicking on a link to your site from another that displays your site inside a frame or you are using frames on your site with both secure and unsecure pages. This could give you this error.
-----Original Message-----
From: Webmaster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 10:32 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Browser problem, firewall is being blamed...
To All,
Ok, I know this is not about a firewall, but folks (clueless...) around here
are blaming the firewall and I can't come up with the technical reason why
it's not my firewalls problem.
Here's the problem - Sometimes, (and I mean not often, with no apparent
recurring theme) in IE 5.x browsers, when folks bring up our logon page
(which is a frames page) in SSL, they'll get a message asking them if they
want to display both secure and non-secure items on the same page. If they
click yes, everything runs merrily along and the 'lock' displays the page is
secure. Remember this hardly happens.
My theory - I know my firewall (phoenix appliance running on linux) is not
the culprit. My theory is that an 'interruption in the transmission, (i.e.
a dropped packet) occurs either at the browser, connection to internet, or
where ever the packets happen to be flowing from/to causing the browser to
think that a certain item on the page (picture,etc..) is a 'non-secure'
item.
Question to everyone - does anyone out there have a clue as to what the
problem might be? Or where I can go to research it? I've already looked in
some obvious places (SSL, browser security, MS knowledgebase etc...).
Please help me come up the 'truth' about what's going on.
Thanks for the help,
Michael Sorbera
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