Connection is Not Secure - why?

[Wolfgang]

As told by Firefox, part of the forum pages are not secure... I am using the latest Firefox 53.0.3

[altenbach · Accepted solution]

If you look at the page source, there are quite a few "http://" images. for example, in the list of top kudoed author, Ray's avatar image is http while most others seem to be https. I don't have an explanation why this is. Maybe Lili could look into it at one point.

Chrome complains that some images can be intercepted and this is probably why.

[Wolfgang]

Thank you, I have to admit that it was more a feedback than a question   ...

[LiliMcDonald · Accepted solution]

Hi Wolfgang,

As Christian stated, the web browser will typically give you some insight as to why the page is not secure. In this case, the main reason is that we allow users to choose to have an avatar or to embed images that are hosted on another site. Because of this, users could link to an image with a "http" URL and therefore it is not "secure." We can review the impact of changing this option though to ensure our users are more comfortable browsing the site.

Thanks for the feedback!

Lili