Why is the 'connection partially encrypted'?

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  joshuagaskell · Member · Dec 12, 2014 at 9:39 am

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  I have two blogs: donaldpincher.wordpress.com and joshuagaskell.wordpress.com. Firefox says of the first ‘Connection Partially Encrypted’ and displays a hazard symbol (exclamation mark in the search box); and of the second ‘Connection Not Encrypted’ and displays the globe symbol.
  What I’d like to know is the reason for the difference, whether one state of affairs is more desirable than the other, and if so how to rectify it.
  Thank you.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  loopafox · Member · Dec 12, 2014 at 10:14 am

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  Hi joshuagaskell,

  The short answer to your question is neither is desirable. This is a small problem easily fixed. there seems to be a twitter image that has been inserted or is linked to without using https in the url, this causes the hazard symbol to pop up.

  You will need to locate that twitter image and make sure it has ‘https‘ in the url so that it knows to load it over a secure connection.

  For the second blog ‘Connection Not Encrypted’ try typing in the url with https in front like this ‘https://joshuagaskell.wordpress.com’ – i have tried this and even on this site i am seeing the hazard symbol – this seems to be because the same twitter image is being loaded from the first blog but without https, this also needs to be corrected.

  keep reading for more info:

  The reason for the ‘partially encrypted’ warning is because there are images being loaded on your blog that are not being loaded over https. When a page loads with https (all wordpress blogs are https) it will warn you if there is any page element that is not being loaded via https.

  I discovered this by visiting ‘donaldpincher.wordpress.com’ using the Chrome browser and then right clicking on the page and selecting ‘insepct element’ and then viewing the tab ‘console’ the information in there reads The page at 'https://donaldpincher.wordpress.com/' was loaded over HTTPS, but displayed insecure content from 'http://dcbdluf1ahqio.cloudfront.net/twitter/32x32.png': this content should also be loaded over HTTPS.

  I performed the same check on ‘joshuagaskell.wordpress.com’ and it displays a similar warning The page at 'https://joshuagaskell.wordpress.com/' was loaded over HTTPS, but displayed insecure content from 'http://dcbdluf1ahqio.cloudfront.net/twitter/32x32.png': this content should also be loaded over HTTPS.

  For the second blog ‘joshuagaskell.wordpress.com’ it is a little bit more mysterious. When you visit ‘joshuagaskell.wordpress.com’ do you by chance use a bookmark or saved link? the reason i ask is because it could be that your bookmark is saved as http://joshuagaskell.wordpress.com and not https://”” – the difference being the ‘s’ at the end of ‘http’.
  To test this try and visit joshuagaskell.wordpress.com and remember to put https:// at the beginning when typing into the URL bar.

  If you have any questions or trouble fixing the twitter image don’t hesitate to ask.

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  joshuagaskell · Member · Jan 10, 2015 at 2:40 pm

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  Hello loopafox,

  Thank you very much, that solved my problem. Sorry for not replying earlier – I did not receive (or see) a notification saying that someone had answered my question.

  Josh.

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  loopafox · Member · Jan 10, 2015 at 2:43 pm

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  You are most welcome :)