Following September’s launch of the new Microsoft CDN (Content Delivery Network Service), in which you can reference ajax libraries in cache, Microsoft recently added SSL support, thus confirming Microsoft’s announcement back then. This new feature is necessary in websites that have SSL enabled pages and script library references in them. What would happen until now was a message displaying “This page contains both secure and non-secure items…”.
SSL support is now enabled with the scripts hosted on the Microsoft AJAX CDN. Simply use an “https” moniker with any script references on your site that point to the CDN, and they will now be served over SSL. For example, below is how you can reference jQuery over SSL:
For more information, check out the Microsoft Ajax Content Delivery Network website. At the bottom there’s a useful list of ASP.NET Ajax Libraries hosted on the CDN.
