Website links in Story Map not working

[JamesThaxton]

I have a story map with website links to the National Weather Service and National Hurricane Center on tabs. For some reason, the web links quit working in Chrome. Any ideas?

http://arcg.is/1NpGtzE 

[StephenSylvia]

Are you talking about the last 3 tabs? My assumption is because you have loaded the Story Map using a https (secure connection) in your browser. For security reasons, browsers do not allow http (insecure connections) to be loaded in a https loaded app. If you want to make sure the websites load, you will need to make sure you always load and share your app with an http URL. Normally, you can fix this by making sure you embed websites using their https URL, however NWS does not have a valid certificate on their server to handle https connections.

[JamesThaxton]

Thanks for your help! So how do I load the app with an http URL?

[StephenSylvia · Accepted solution]

Just make sure the beginning of your url starts with http not https. In most browsers, you will see a lock in the URL bar if you have loaded it with https. And some, including Chrome, the http will disappear from the from of the URL after you first load it.

[RebeccaStrauch__GISP]

re: Chrome, you may want to read thru this blog too.

Increased web API security in Google Chrome | ArcGIS Blog

And there are a 1/2 dozen or so posts re issues with recent Chrome updates causing issues with other esri products, just do a search on chrome.

edit...

this was the one I was trying to find, but has to save before I oad ate my response 

WAB killed by Chrome 51

This us more for web API s, but very likely related to the changes in chrome.