Page Viewer Web Part will not work when i access my SharePoint sites using https

Question

I am working on sharepoint server 2013 web application. and i added a Page viewer Web part which is showing an external system. the url for the external system is (http://HRWebApplication). now when i access my sharepoint web application using http with sharepoint server name as follow http://SPservername/ the page viewer worked well.

but if i access my sharepoint web application using HTTPS + I used an alternative access name such as https://OurSharePointIntranet.intra the page viewer will not show the external system instead a white page will be rendered. so can anyone adivce what can be causing this ?

Thanks

Answer 1

A Page Viewer webpart is nothing more than an IFRAME. loading HTTP content in an HTTPS site is a security risk so it is not allowed. You can try adding a HTTPS proxy, or a using IIS URL Rewriting on the target HRWebApplication machine to "trick" the SharePoint site and load the HTTP content through that.

More info here.