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Reply #15 - Jul 11th, 2019, 10:51am
 
Hello all, I am on Firefox and once my password goes in the site changes from secure to not secure, also.
Same thing for Chrome. Following this thread with interest! Smiley
 
Just tried Waterfox and the same thing happens.
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Reply #16 - Jul 12th, 2019, 5:16pm
 
Hello,  
Sorry for the confusion here and the delay in responding to this thread.  
 
Chrome (and other browsers) will now show this "Not Secure" message any time you're on a page that's not served via https.   This is meant as a warning that you should not enter any sensitive information like a password or billing information on the page as the page is not encrypted.  
 
All GCU pages that collect personal information have actually been served via https for some time now, while we've slowly been working on migrating our entire site to https.  We've moved nearly all of the shopper pages to https and expect to have the artist subdomain moved to https before the end of the year.  
 
The artist subdomain does not collect any private personal data or perform any transactions.  As an artist, if you start a purchase or update your account information you're redirected to an https page on the www.GreetingCardUniverse.com subdomain.   For now, there is nothing to worry about in terms of security on artist pages, but if you'd like to browse your admin area via https, please us this link after logging into your account:
https://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/community/admin.asp
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Reply #17 - Jul 12th, 2019, 5:36pm
 
Quote from Shaun_131054 on Jul 12th, 2019, 5:16pm:
Hello,
Sorry for the confusion here and the delay in responding to this thread.  

Chrome (and other browsers) will now show this "Not Secure" message any time you're on a page that's not served via https.   This is meant as a warning that you should not enter any sensitive information like a password or billing information on the page as the page is not encrypted.  

All GCU pages that collect personal information have actually been served via https for some time now, while we've slowly been working on migrating our entire site to https.  We've moved nearly all of the shopper pages to https and expect to have the artist subdomain moved to https before the end of the year.  




The artist subdomain does not collect any private personal data or perform any transactions.  As an artist, if you start a purchase or update your account information you're redirected to an https page on the www.GreetingCardUniverse.com subdomain.   For now, there is nothing to worry about in terms of security on artist pages, but if you'd like to browse your admin area via https, please us this link after logging into your account:
https://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/community/admin.asp

 
 
Thanks so much Shaun! Greatly appreciate your response and confirmation that it is a site update situation.
And somehow I did "back door" it in to a secured section when I uploaded my recent card. But if anyone were to ask me how I did it, I couldn't say. lol. Maybe I somehow happened upon the link you provided.
 
Thanks again, and have a nice weekend.
 
Laura
 
 
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Reply #18 - Jul 12th, 2019, 6:18pm
 
Thank you, Shaun! Makes sense. I should have thought of that as I sometimes enter the https when I see the page is not listed that way. Smiley
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Reply #19 - Jul 13th, 2019, 7:07am
 
Great, Thank you, Shaun!  
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Reply #20 - Jul 16th, 2019, 6:05pm
 
Quote from Laura_142481 on Jul 12th, 2019, 5:36pm:
Quote from Shaun_131054 on Jul 12th, 2019, 5:16pm:
Hello,
Sorry for the confusion here and the delay in responding to this thread.  

Chrome (and other browsers) will now show this "Not Secure" message any time you're on a page that's not served via https.   This is meant as a warning that you should not enter any sensitive information like a password or billing information on the page as the page is not encrypted.  

All GCU pages that collect personal information have actually been served via https for some time now, while we've slowly been working on migrating our entire site to https.  We've moved nearly all of the shopper pages to https and expect to have the artist subdomain moved to https before the end of the year.  




The artist subdomain does not collect any private personal data or perform any transactions.  As an artist, if you start a purchase or update your account information you're redirected to an https page on the www.GreetingCardUniverse.com subdomain.   For now, there is nothing to worry about in terms of security on artist pages, but if you'd like to browse your admin area via https, please us this link after logging into your account:
https://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/community/admin.asp



Thanks so much Shaun! Greatly appreciate your response and confirmation that it is a site update situation.
And somehow I did "back door" it in to a secured section when I uploaded my recent card. But if anyone were to ask me how I did it, I couldn't say. lol. Maybe I somehow happened upon the link you provided.

Thanks again, and have a nice weekend.

Laura



 
 Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy I think I've just figured out your "back door" problem (& it resolves my questions/problems too)!!!! Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy  
Even for Chrome users! When you're logged in as an artist and you click the links in the Administrative Settings' ORANGE sections with the BLUE TEXT, you mostly get secure https pages; HOWEVER, if you click the links available in the BLUE bar with WHITE TEXT, they take you to mostly http pages. So ... if you want to create a card, or do nearly almost anything else, begin with the appropriate link in the orange section!  
 
 
 
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Reply #21 - Jul 16th, 2019, 7:12pm
 
Quote from Stacia_208183 on Jul 16th, 2019, 6:05pm:
Quote from Laura_142481 on Jul 12th, 2019, 5:36pm:
Quote from Shaun_131054 on Jul 12th, 2019, 5:16pm:
Hello,
Sorry for the confusion here and the delay in responding to this thread.  

Chrome (and other browsers) will now show this "Not Secure" message any time you're on a page that's not served via https.   This is meant as a warning that you should not enter any sensitive information like a password or billing information on the page as the page is not encrypted.  

All GCU pages that collect personal information have actually been served via https for some time now, while we've slowly been working on migrating our entire site to https.  We've moved nearly all of the shopper pages to https and expect to have the artist subdomain moved to https before the end of the year.  




The artist subdomain does not collect any private personal data or perform any transactions.  As an artist, if you start a purchase or update your account information you're redirected to an https page on the www.GreetingCardUniverse.com subdomain.   For now, there is nothing to worry about in terms of security on artist pages, but if you'd like to browse your admin area via https, please us this link after logging into your account:
https://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/community/admin.asp



Thanks so much Shaun! Greatly appreciate your response and confirmation that it is a site update situation.
And somehow I did "back door" it in to a secured section when I uploaded my recent card. But if anyone were to ask me how I did it, I couldn't say. lol. Maybe I somehow happened upon the link you provided.

Thanks again, and have a nice weekend.

Laura




Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy I think I've just figured out your "back door" problem (& it resolves my questions/problems too)!!!! Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy
Even for Chrome users! When you're logged in as an artist and you click the links in the Administrative Settings' ORANGE sections with the BLUE TEXT, you mostly get secure https pages; HOWEVER, if you click the links available in the BLUE bar with WHITE TEXT, they take you to mostly http pages. So ... if you want to create a card, or do nearly almost anything else, begin with the appropriate link in the orange section!




 
Yes! Exactly. I had mentioned that in my earlier comment in the thread, and I found another way in, but can't recreate it. But yes, Stacia, that is definitely a way to do it thankfully. I have yet to try Shaun's link.
 
I'm just so happy he commented and confirmed what many of us thought was the issue.
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Reply #22 - Jul 17th, 2019, 3:32am
 
Quote from Laura_142481 on Jul 11th, 2019, 12:08am:
Quote from Doreen_139193 on Jul 10th, 2019, 7:58pm:
Quote from Laura_142481 on Jul 10th, 2019, 7:03pm:
Quote from Doreen_137017 on Jul 1st, 2019, 9:25am:
Quote from Stacia_208183 on Jul 1st, 2019, 8:34am:
Quote from Doreen_137017 on Jul 1st, 2019, 8:03am:
I thought I'd mention to all of you that I have recently found Chrome to be a nightmare. Chrome has been  causing havoc to many all over the world. The mouse can make popup windows/fields jump around, there is the inability to recognize safe sites, and in my case caused my laptop to freeze and crash to the point of near non-recovery, had I not been married to a retired engineer and IT guy.

The moral of this story is that after my own recent events with Chrome, I've uninstalled it (ALL my troubles went away) and changed to Waterfox, an open source browser which functions well for GCU and other POD sites. Free to download and install. Safer to use than Chrome and Firefox these days since they both use an excess of memory and keep way too much information about what you do on them.

If anyone is interested: https://www.waterfox.net/

in other words, the problem you are all having is not one GCU is likely to be able to do anything about. This is Chrome misbehaving AGAIN.

Good luck!


Thanks for this big tip! What I find particularly odd in my situation is that I do not have any problem with Chrome elsewhere  - only here.


My problems with Chrome began only here as well about a three months ago, then the issues elsewhere began very recently. Don't know what to make of that, but for me it worked to make a change.




Hi Doreen!

I'm on Safari on a new Mac and the site starts secure, but once I login with my password, the site becomes "not secure" according to the URL for GCU. It also happens on Chrome, which thankfully, is not causing me any problems. Oh well, I guess I'll just use it that way, but I am a bit paranoid that all of my personal info can now be easily viewed / hacked. I'm not having this issue with any other site.

Curious enough, the site is secure on my iPhone. But since there doesn't seem to be a way to upload a card to the site via phone, it's hard to know if the site would be unsecured at that point.

I'm also wondering if Chrome is more of a problem on PC's. I've updated to the Mojave operating system on my Mac, and everything seems fine. Except the GCU site. Oh well.


Well that certainly is odd, isn't it? I imagine GCU is looking into the issue, but again it may not be on the GCU side of things. These kind of things are bizarre because the browsers keep getting updated, trying to be super secure, yet many times those updates cause errors with sites you know to be secure.


Wow! What a thread, huh? Lol! And what was even weirder is that after I wrote my reply to you earlier, I went back onto the site using Chrome and all was good. Maybe the SSL is corrupted, or the site itself is having a coding issue somewhere? Hard to know. And of course, as I write this now, the site is not secure.

Thanks so much for responding! xo

 
I think part of the trick might be to make sure you are starting from a good link. First, delete any bookmarks you used before (because it's easy to accidentally use the old ones). Then start by using https://www.greetingcarduniverse.com to log in. This should give you many secure options in the orange sections of the admin page. If not, then do as Shaun says & enter the link he gave. Hope that helps you.  
 
Also important is to NOT use those links in the blue bar area NOR most of the links under "Questions" at the top of the home page, as many take you out of https. The exception to the topmost links is the "Manage Store" link - that keeps you in https. Good luck!
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