Leaving that attribute is important because it is the simplest and standard way to let the user download and install the player.
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Browse All TopicsThe designer in our company has added a flash advertisement in one of the secured pages. Since then Internet Explorer displays the Security Information "This page contains both secure and nonsecure items...". Everything referred on the page including the flash file is hosted on the secured site. The tag for flash is ...
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE
<param name="movie" value="/Images/AAA.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=opaque>
<embed src="/Images/AAA.swf" quality="high" wmode=opaque pluginspage="http://www.ma
</object>
AAA.swf is hosted on the secured site. If I take out codebase="http://download.
Netscape doesn't display any warning for the same page. Same is true for Internet Explorer on Mac. It is only IE on Windows (the most used) that displays this warning. What can be done to stop this warning sort of removing the codebase attribute.
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Found the solution. Quite simple - just change the http to https in codebase attribute :)
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by: j3onePosted on 2004-06-12 at 15:51:16ID: 11297556
I guese you could take out that line and use somthing else to test if they have flash, and give them the option to download-if-needed... - just an idea. The warning probably has somthind to do with the IE settings, but you may be able to work around it...