I spent my weekend on a new project I’m calling hopscotch. Its a tiny, high-performance HTTP image proxy. When you include unsecured (HTTP) content (usually images) inside a secured (HTTPS) page, you effectively make the whole page “unsecure”. The browser will usually tell you when this happens in some way. Older versions of IE at least used to present an obnoxious dialog box. Chrome will change the state of the padlock icon and remove the green EV badge on an EV site. Its a pretty horr...
