In the internet zone security settings choices there is a choice to display
mixed content. What is the purpose of this setting? If you allow mixed
content what security risk are you taking? How big is this risk? I know I
can put sites in my trusted zone, but it is not practical when doing a lot of
searching. IE7, AAW Plus, NIS 2007
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Randu

“Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily
available, they will create their own." Scott Adams

This option specifies whether web pages can display content from both
secure and non-secure servers. If you disable mixed content you prevent
the web page from displaying non-secure content. If you enable mixed
content you allow the page to display both secure and non-secure
content. The default is Prompt.

A non-secure server does not have a digital certificate, so there's no
authentication and no encryption.

This only comes into play when you are submitting personal information
on the web.

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Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

Randu wrote:
> In the internet zone security settings choices there is a choice to display
> mixed content. What is the purpose of this setting? If you allow mixed
> content what security risk are you taking? How big is this risk? I know I
> can put sites in my trusted zone, but it is not practical when doing a lot of
> searching. IE7, AAW Plus, NIS 2007