Https lock broken possibly due to absolute http header footer image links.

[rbai]

To make the https lock secure, can I make my website header and footer image URLs to relative? I have read that we need to have absolute URLs for images for good SEO. In our old ecommerce platform we made http image urls for http pages and https image urls for https pages. For our new platform this is not  a standard feature and we will have to pay for customizations which we don't have any more budget for that. So will making image URLs relative create any other problems?

[DmitriiK]

Hi there.

To answer your question - no. Relative/absolute paths are not related anyhow to https security of your website. Yes, it's easier to scrape your website if URLs are relative, but that's about it.

P.S. If your "https lock" is broken, you should be able to click on it and get information on what exactly wrong with it. 100% it wouldn't say anything about images

[BeanstalkIM]

As Dimitri notes, you can click the lock to get info.

I've also found https://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.html helpful.  I use it regularly to diagnose specific oddities.

For different details you can also try https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html.

[rbai]

Thanks for the information. I clicked on it and it said it is encrypted with an obsolete cipher suite. Do you know what it means? We use godaddy SSL. Are they responsible for this or our ecommerce platform Netsuite Suitecommerce Advanced?

[DirkC]

Hi,

Not an encryption specialist - but maybe this question on stackexchange can help you solve the issue. According to one of the comments on the best answer (by  tlng05) - this could be done by modifying some server settings to allow clients to use at least one of the listed ciphersuites. In apache, this can be done in your VirtualHost configuration file. There is an SSL config generator you can use to make this easier: mozilla.github.io/server-side-tls/ssl-config-generator

Hope this helps,

Dirk

[MattRoney]

Hey rbai!

Get it figured out?

[rbai]

I made header and footer images to relative and now the seal is secure.

[BeanstalkIM]

Glad to hear.