Jeff, thanks for your response.  How do you get to "developer tools"?
Also, how can I learn more about working with the API?  I'd like to pursue
the last solution that you suggested, but I've never worked with API calls
before.

Kyle

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 4:40 PM, Karlsen, Jeffrey <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> There's an EBSCO service issue about this, SI 154875, that you can ask to
> be added to. I actually checked up on this the other day but there was no
> update. Ridiculous, right? If you look in developer tools, you see that the
> jackets come in with http:// explicitly declared.
>
> Will Sakai allow the search box to open results in a new window? Otherwise
> I don't see any solutions unless you were to use the API instead of
> EBSCOhost - if you did that you could change the protocol in the image url
> before it loaded.
>
> --
> Jeff Karlsen
> Librarian & Library Dept Chair
> Sacramento City College
> (916) 558-2583
> www.scc.losrios.edu/library
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Kyle Breneman
> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2017 1:18 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [CODE4LIB] EBSCO Discovery Service, HTTPS, and mixed content
>
> My library uses EDS and we've enabled HTTPS for our main EDS profile.
> Apparently EBSCO is using unsecured content to provide book cover images
> within EDS.  This is a problem for us because we have a customized EDS
> search box within our LMS, but Sakai, which prefers secure content, will
> not load search results from EDS.  Sakai says that there is mixed content.
>
> Has anyone else encountered this mixed content in EDS and been frustrated
> by it? Elegant solutions?
>
> Regards,
> Kyle
>
> P.S. I'm aware that some browsers still allow you to disable protections
> and view unsecured content, but that process is far from intuitive for most
> of our users.
>