google translate not showing up when https is used in url

Question

For some reason when you go to the url https://www.improvementskills.org/index.cfm google translate does not show up, but when you go to http://www.improvementskills.org/index.cfm it works fine. So I know the issue is with SSL and having https. Does anyone know what the problem is and how to fix it. Thanks!

Answer 1

You are loading Google's JavaScript with an http URL, even when your page is served with https. The browser rejects that, because it's insecure to include non-https content in an https page.

You need to do this:

<script type="text/javascript" src="//translate.google.com/...

rather than specifying the URL as http://translate.google.com/... By starting the URL at the double-slash, the browser will use whichever of http or https the page itself is using.