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    Page trying to load scripts from unauthenticated sources

    Every time I visit the EAA forums, I get an "Insecure content blocked" message from Chrome, and the page loads as plain text with no images, theme, etc. I suspect it's complaining about this:

    Code:
    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://eaaforums.org/clientscript/vb...-core.js?v=424"></script>
    Name:  plaintext.jpg
Views: 1351
Size:  11.0 KB
    If I tell it to load the unsafe scripts, the page looks normal but the URL bar tells me the site is not secure.
    Name:  insecure.png
Views: 1430
Size:  8.5 KB
    Am I the only one?
    Last edited by DaleB; 05-04-2018 at 05:08 PM.
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    Firefox 59.0.3 is not giving me any problems with this site.

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    No problems here with Chromium 66.0.3359.139 build on Linux. I suspect it has to do with the EAA site not using encryption with an HTTPS URL and associated certificate, and your browser set up to flag unencrypted websites.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DBurr View Post
    No problems here with Chromium 66.0.3359.139 build on Linux. I suspect it has to do with the EAA site not using encryption with an HTTPS URL and associated certificate, and your browser set up to flag unencrypted websites.
    I think so too. Note that it's an HTTPS URL with a valid cert and encryption, but then it has a link to an unencrypted http URL to load some accursed Javascript. Odd that it just started doing this a week or two ago; it's a recent problem. Don't know if it was a change on the EAA side, or a Chrome update that did it.
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    Are you running a developer version of Chrome? For better or worse, starting in July Chrome 68 will begin flagging all http: sites as insecure as part of Google's push for end-to-end web encryption:

    https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/08/ch...as-not-secure/

    There's a lot of web politics for and against this, but the end result is going to be a lot of web brokenness for a while as sites like this slowly get around to fixing all their issues--like the one you just found.

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    Nope. Chrome 66.0.3359.139 (Official Build) (64-bit)

    Personally, I think requiring SSL everywhere is ridiculous. Yes, if there's PII, passwords, account numbers, etc. in transit, then absolutely it's needed. But for the other 99.99% of the average person's web browsing, it's simply not.

    Take for example vansaircraft.com, or fisherflying.com, or - well, take your pick. SSL serves no useful purpose. If you want to encrypt everything, great -- but it shouldn't be a requirement. I have a personal web page, running on my own server, that has absolutely no facility for anyone to provide any personal information. No accounts, no logins, no nothing. Why should I have to pay for SSL certs, just to make Google happy? I couldn't care less if Google is happy.

    Rant off.
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    Preaching to the choir Not sure why my personal build-log website composed entirely of static pages needs an SSL certificate, but apparently it does or I'm flagged as a miscreant.

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    Interested to hear from someone on the EAA side -- do you guys have any plans to fix this? It looks like just a matter of having a non-SSL URL calling scripts in an SSL page.It's a little annoying to have to load scripts manually every time the page loads.
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    Hi Dale,

    At this point, we're not experiencing any issues with the problem you described. I am also running the Forums page on Chrome and it seems to be working fine. If we plan on making any changes to the Forums website, we'll let you know.

    Thanks.

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    I'm sorry, Sam. But it is indeed broken NOW and on nearly every page of the site. Chrome marks these pages as unsafe. There are a few URLs that have "HTTP:" hardcoded in them in the protocol, both icons (which will also annoy Chrome's security sensibility) but also some of the scripts such as this line:

    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://eaaforums.org/clientscript/vb...-core.js?v=424"></script>



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