document solutions for mixed content (http/https) being blocked by browser

[ms4720]

Noticed a couple of issues with browsers today:

Chrome:

• Problem: silently started blocking vectors http requests from a https site
• Solution: click on the grey shield on the right of the address bar and enable unsafe javascript

Firefox:

• Problem: silently started blocking vectors http requests from a https site
• Solution: click on the i on the left of the address bar and enable mixed mode
• Problem: Cross-Origin Request Blocked
• Solution: not sure yet, don't have much to do with front end will update if not closed

I am not aware of docs covering this

[spiermar]

Known browser behavior, but you're right, there's no documentation around the issue. I would also add a second workaround which is fronting pmwebd with a proxy that does ssl termination.

[ms4720]

Another option is run it on a trusted network over http