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I've just installed SSL, forced secure URLs, and set up a donation page. When I load it with https, for a split second it looks good (blue domain name in browser URL box, padlock below) ... but then the blue domain name disappears and my padlock gets an error that says there is unauthenticated content. My web host says the SSL is properly installed (and I can open other pages such as CHANGELOG.txt on https without errors). I am told there must be unencrypted content on the page, and that I need to find and fix it -- but everything on the page is generated either by Drupal or CiviCRM. I've removed a ShareThis widget, just in case, but no luck. Any ideas?

Not a clue where to begin. Any ideas? I've disabled just about everything I can think of (text resize, google analytics, etc.) for CiviCRM pages. There's a lot of jquery/jscript in the source code ... no idea if SSL cares about that or how to test without breaking everything. FWIW I am finding non-CiviCRM pages in my Drupal site that also break when I open them in https - contact form, bio pages, etc. Something about the theme or other modules?

My install doesn't have a packages/ckeditor directory. It does have packages/fckeditor - would it be worth trying one of those js files? If so, which? I appreciate the help here.

My profile is correct for one site and incorrect for another.    This site is 3.0.3.  However, I had already set site preferences to "textarea." Your issues.civicrm post says textarea can also be a problem, and to switch to TinyMCE. I've done that, but still have the problematic SSL behavior.

A friend has asked if it might be the images on the page, which are stored on http, not https...?

That's correct. Changing the Site Preferences did not fix it. But again, this site is 3.0.3, not 3.1.

Going into the stylesheet and changing all image references to https fixed the problem. Since many of these images were straight out of the box for my Drupal theme, this seems like an odd kludge that shouldn't be necessary, but I'm not sure whether the problem belongs to CiviCRM or Drupal or the theme or ....

Also, it seems odd to me that images referenced in blocks on my page were not a problem. Only images referenced in .css caused SSL to hang up.

The images causing problems were referenced in .css like "http://www.domain.com/files/image.jpg" or "http://www.domain.com/themes/customthemes/themename/images/image.jpg".

It's very possible I created the problem during site development when I was testing with images stored in another domain's directories (so then when the site was launched, I simply switched domain names rather than use relative paths).

That fixed our site (3.1.2) - thanks, Dave!
I was having a lot of trouble nailing down the source of the mixed content.

We've nailed down the problem a bit.
http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-5911

If you are using 3.1 (as noted in your profile), your install should have ckeditor rather than fckeditor (since we upgraded to ckeditor from fckeditor - the old version of that tool - in 3.1).

In any case, if you're ok with using TinyMCE as your editor in CiviCRM (for forms that have rich text fields) - you can try the workaround of changing your Site Preferences (Administer >> Configure >> Global Settings >> Site Preferences) : WYSIWYG Editor to TinyMCE. That change fixed the error on our public demo page - so hopefully fixes it for your site as well. Let us know.