getUrl - getSkinUrl displaying insecure content on HTTPS pages

Question

Visitors to my website in HTTPS are receiving messages that some of the content is not secure. Upon investigation it appears that my active template has a getUrl and getSkinUrl code that calls the home button but displays it in HTTP and not HTTPS.

<a href="<?php echo $this->getUrl() ?>"><img src="<?php echo $this->getSkinUrl(); ?>images/Home.gif" alt="<?php echo $this->__('Home');?>"/>

How do I make a call to getUrl and getSkinUrl to generate secure links on secure pages?

Answer 1

first of all, this:

<?php echo $this->getSkinUrl(); ?>images/Home.gif

should be

<?php echo $this->getSkinUrl('images/Home.gif'); ?>

You can pass parameters to getUrl to make it secure:

$this->getUrl('', array('_secure'=>true));
$this->getSkinUrl('images/Home.gif', array('_secure'=>true));

Answer 2

Change the unsecure URL under:

System > Configuration > General > Web > Unsecure

Needs to be changed to http:// instead of https://.

This fixed the issue.