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I have an index html page, and inside this html page I have something like:

<link href="http://www.extenaldomain.com/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"></link>

if I run my html without using SSL (ie. http://www.mydomain.com/index.html) then all the styling applies to the html which is good, however if I run https://www.mydomain.com/index.html) then none of the rules in the css apply to the html.

So, besides downloading the style.css from externaldomain.com into my mydomain.com is there any way to make it work?

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Can the stylesheet on the external domain be accessed through both http and https? If so, use //www.external.domain.com/style.css. – Rick yesterday
no, I can't externaldomain doesn't have ssl installed – Josh yesterday

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You basically shouldn't be mixing SSL and non-SSL content in your browser. Since your page is loaded in SSL, anything you do in it should also be secure. I believe some browsers will still load the content with only a warning message instead, but in any case, you shouldn't be mixing them.

If it's not terribly important that that page be secure, I would just disable https from that one page while someone is viewing it

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I know I shouldn't but I have no choice. what I'm trying to do is, mydomain.com will have an <iframe> and inside the iframe it will load the externaldomain.com/index.html something like that. So mydomain.com has SSL installed but most of the externaldomain.com won't have SSL installed. so If I access https: www.mydomain.com/index.html and the iframe is loading, images are loading as well it's just the css (and probably javascript) won't load – Josh yesterday
If you are not transferring any sensitive data (like user login stuff) on that particular page, you can disable SSL only when you are on that page. – Lochemage yesterday
unfortunately I can't disable the SSL. The only way I can think of is, get the content from the externaldomain.com/something.css then manually load it into the iframe. Anyone else has any other idea? – Josh 3 hours ago

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