Adding a flickr channel but making it secure?
We're getting a nice collection of photos on flickr and was asked to make a channel with a picture slideshow or even just random images. The problem is that flickr doesn't use https, while the rest of our portal does. I worked really hard trying to get everything secure so that IE wouldn't pop up with the mixed content warning. Does anyone know how to pull in mixed content but still make the browser think its secure? I can pull in youtube videos, but I can't get the same code work for the flickr slideshow.
Can you proxy the flckr channel
If you are able or willing to proxy this via you own web server, this would probably work. We have used apache with mod_proxy to do something slightly similar. Your proxy would have to serve pages via https and retrieve them via http
sungard advice on running a proxy server
a while ago I found the documentation for setting a proxy server with the tools supplied with Luminis.
Never ended up using it though.
Derek
University of Leeds, UK
flickr - got it working
I got close on making this work, I used the flash program here:
http://www.forestandthetrees.com/mashupTalk/mashupCodeExample/index.htm
I put the files on our apache server which we have a certificate on, but for some reason Firefox is showing the channel as an untrusted site. IE is fine with it. We've got other channels that I'm pulling in from the server, and they don't give warnings.
Not the best solution, but its a start.