Thanks Issac,
I know we aren't big by some standards, but at over 2,800,000 posts I'm a little leery of trying to find all the instances that need to be switched over.
As you know, you only have to miss one on a page (even if it's a background dot) to have the browsers complain (or even stop the content from loading).

I've been told it can be done this way...
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(suggested by one of our forums members)

The standard way to fix mixed content issues like this is to make an ssl proxy for images when it’s detected that they come from insecure http. What this means is that the forum server scans URLs to see if they are insecure and then downloads the image itself and then serves it as https. I’m surprised that UBB.threads doesn’t support this out of the box (and I searched a little and doesn’t appear to) but it’s literally 5 or 6 lines of php to do this. And I like to think I’m not just an “armchair expert” as I write code for a pretty big internet company and do stuff like this a lot smile Actually I’m not sure if Frank would be comfortable but I’d be happy to make the change or provide his web developer with the info on making this change. However, this would increase bandwidth costs slightly so that could be a concern.
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But I'm not sure what this would do to the server load, or how well it would work.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to make our forums secure. I know the search engines are starting to penalize sites for not being secure. I just don't want to do more harm then good, and still end up with a mixed bag.

Best,
Frank B.
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