Our organization uses a web proxy to handle our https connections. Because of this, the script links in ScriptLoader.cs and StyleSheetcombiner.ascx.cs  creates all of our connections as http.   When the browser requests the http script links on an https page, there are security warnings stating that insecure content is being requested from a secure page.  Our team lead referred me to a possible solution (http://paulirish.com/2010/the-protocol-relative-url/).  The article discusses the use of a relative path (//) instead of http or https with an image link.  I modified code in the files above (to test) and now, in our IE8 https environment, the pages are rendered correctly with no security messages. 

As far as the file modifications, I removed the variable 'protocol' and all references to it in the code.  For example, in ScriptLoader.cs, around line 974 (GetJQueryBasePath()), I changed the following:

return protocol + "://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/" + WebConfigSettings.GoogleCDNjQueryVersion + "/";

to

return "//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/" + WebConfigSettings.GoogleCDNjQueryVersion + "/";

I can send you the files I modified if you would like to review them.  Would you consider making this a change in the base code?

Thanks!

Leslie

I'll use the <portal:ScriptLoader until the next release is installed.  Thanks Joe!

Hi Joe,

I have the properties set for <portal:ScriptLoader and the .js links working correctly on layout.Master.  Now I'm wondering if there are similar properties we can apply to <portal:StyleSheetCombiner to allow the link to be changed to relative.  I don't see the same properties for this control.

Thanks again...

Leslie

Hi Joe,

That did the trick, we're set.  Thanks again for all of your help with this.  I'll be watching for the next release.

~Leslie