[Resolved] How to include on secure https pages, HELP!!!

[sledgeweb]

Hello-

I have a small problem. I keep getting this error on my secure pages:

This page contains both secure and nonsecure items. Do you want to display the nonsecure items?

This happens because I use some includes to set the layout of the page (menus, title bar, etc.) that are the same throughout the site.

I include this using the following:

$root = "http://www.domain.com";
include "$root/directory/file.ext";

There are several includes on the page.

Now, obviously, the error is being caused by $root being set to HTTP. However, if I change the $root to HTTPS, the page loads without the error message, but none of my linked files display (no menus, no title bar, etc.). It fails to include the files when $root is set to HTTPS ... this won't work because I also include some database setup files that allow me to connect to various databases.

So... the question is, how can I include files into a secure page without getting the error warning? Surely there is a way?

Thanks,
Sledge

[lobster]

Can't you use a relative url for the root...or perhaps leave off the http altogether and just use

$root= "www.yourdomain.com";

Just a suggestion.

[sledgeweb]

Unfortunately, no. Since the pages all load from different directories, I can't use relative links. It has to be linked from the web root.

I solved my problem though. First, I set the $root variable to the windows path:

$root = "C:/Inetpub/wroot";

I still got the error message though, I discovered it was from a flash banner included in my layout. Within the flash html code is the following:

codebase="http://download.macromedia.com..."
pluginspace ="https://download.macromedia.com..."

After changing those to https everything worked fine. How odd is that? Anywho, thanks for the response.

-Sledge