Microsoft KB Archive/883740

= You receive the warning &quot;You are about to be redirected to a connection that is not secure.&quot; in Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 =

Article ID: 883740

Article Last Modified on 4/7/2006

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APPLIES TO

 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 Service Pack 1, when used with:  Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition

 Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition

 Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition

 Microsoft Windows XP Professional</li></ul>

 Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004</li></ul>

 Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition</li></ul> </li></ul>

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Important This article contains information about modifying the registry. Before you modify the registry, make sure to back it up and make sure that you understand how to restore the registry if a problem occurs. For information about how to back up, restore, and edit the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

256986 Description of the Microsoft Windows Registry

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SYMPTOMS
When you click a link or submit to a form that redirects Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 (SP1) from a secure Web site (https://) to another Web site, you may receive the following warning message:

Security Alert

You are about to be redirected to a connection that is not secure.

The information you are sending to the current site might be retransmitted to a nonsecure site. Do you wish to continue?

You may receive this warning even though the Warn if changing between secure and not secure mode check box on the Advance tab of the Internet Options dialog box is not selected.

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Hotfix information
Warning If you use Registry Editor incorrectly, you may cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that you can solve problems that result from using Registry Editor incorrectly. Use Registry Editor at your own risk.

Service pack information
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Windows XP. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

322389 How to obtain the latest Windows XP service pack

To enable the fix provided by Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, you must add the DWORD registry entry WarnOnHTTPSToHTTPRedirect to the following registry subkeys for either &quot;per-user&quot; or &quot;per-computer&quot; installations.

For individual user accounts, or &quot;per-user&quot; installation, use the following subkey:

For &quot;per-computer&quot; configurations, use the following subkey:

The registry entry WarnOnHTTPSToHTTPRedirect takes the following two values:
 * 1: Display the Security Alert message.
 * 0: Do not display the Security Alert message.

To add the registry entry WarnOnHTTPSToHTTPRedirect for an individual user, follow these steps:

Follow these steps, and then quit Registry Editor: <ol> Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.</li> Locate and then click the following key in the registry:

 

</li> On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.</li> Type WarnOnHTTPSToHTTPRedirect, and then press ENTER.</li> On the Edit menu, click Modify.</li> Type 0, and then click OK.</li></ol>

A supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft, but it is only intended to correct the problem that this article describes. Apply it only to systems that are experiencing this specific problem.

To resolve this problem, contact Microsoft Product Support Services to obtain the hotfix. For a complete list of Microsoft Product Support Services telephone numbers and information about support costs, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/?ws=support

Note In special cases, charges that are ordinarily incurred for support calls may be canceled if a Microsoft Support Professional determines that a specific update will resolve your problem. The usual support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for the specific update in question.

File information
The English version of this hotfix has the file attributes (or later file attributes) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in coordinated universal time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel.

<pre class="fixed_text">  Date         Time   Version           Size     File name --  25-Oct-2004  18:40  6.0.2800.1480     577,024  Wininet.dll

To enable this hotfix, you must add the following registry subkey:

This subkey then has the registry entry iexplore.exe. This entry takes the following two values:
 * 0: Display the Security Alert message.
 * 1: Do not display the Security Alert message.

Follow these steps, and then quit Registry Editor: <ol> Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.</li> Locate and then click the following key in the registry:

 

</li> On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click Key.</li> Type FEATURE_NO_WARN_ON_HTTPS_TO_HTTP_REDIRECT_KB883740, and then press ENTER.</li> Click FEATURE_NO_WARN_ON_HTTPS_TO_HTTP_REDIRECT_KB883740.</li> On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.</li> <li>Type iexplore.exe, and then press ENTER.</li> <li>On the Edit menu, click Modify.</li> <li>Type 1, and then click OK.</li></ol>

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STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the &quot;Applies to&quot; section.

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MORE INFORMATION
For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

824684 Description of the standard terminology that is used to describe Microsoft software updates

Keywords: kbqfe kbhotfixserver atdownload kbregistry kbwinxpsp2fix kbfix kbbug KB883740

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