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If this is available in documentation elsewhere I apologize, but I felt it should be in the forums as well if anyone's looking.

Anyway, you might be like me, where you have your entire website swimming in the safe waters of SSL. On most browsers this is just fine, no problem whatsoever.

But Internet Explorer, that devious abomination, has issues with loading non-secure content on a website using https. Case in point: the "Help Spread the Word" social networking function that's available at the bottom of your CiviCRM event/contribution pages. As it turns out, the Twitter and Facebook links do not use SSL. If you need this functionality (like I did), here's what you do.

Go find your CiviCRM folder, wherever it may be, and follow this directory structure:

civicrm > templates > CRM > common > SocialNetwork.tpl

First make a copy of SocialNetwork.tpl before you change anything.
Then, open up the SocialNetwork.tpl file in your favorite text editor, and make the following changes:

On Line 48, change "src="http://platform.twitter.com" to "https://platform.twitter.com"
On Line 56, change "<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com" to "<iframe src="https://www.facebook.com"

Save, flush caches, and refresh. Fixed.

You'll have to do this every time you update CiviCRM, unless it's changed for future updates.

See CRM-9886 for a patch