[TYPO3] admin panel show up on backend but not on frontend

[Bing Du]

Bing Du wrote:
>> Hi again,
>>
>> On 3/1/07, Bing Du <bdu at iastate.edu> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Typo3 V4.0.4
>>>
>>> In Web->View, I can see the admin panel and pencils on the pages.  But
>>> no
>>> admin panel and pencils when looking at the page in web browser (same as
>>> what the backend is running in).  Page source doesn't have admin panel
>>> stuff.  What could be the problem?
>>
>> One thing I thought of while looking into this (you may remember that
>> a week or so ago I mentioned that this was a problem I'd seen), was to
>> ensure that you're logged into exactly the same domain as you're
>> previewing. This means if you want to look at the site
>> www.example.com, you should be logged into www.example.com/typo3/
>>
>> Make sure that's what you're doing and see if anything different happens.
>>
>> --
>> Christopher Torgalson
>> http://www.typo3apprentice.com/
> 
> Thanks much again, Christopher.  Yes, I remember that.  And I know it has
> to be the same domain.  After I logged on the backend, I just copied the
> URL but leaving 'typo3/' out and pasted in the same type browser (FF).  So
> I did  exactly what you said.  I also tried in IE, same thing.  My
> situation is better than a couple of weeks ago.  At least frontend editing
> symbols show up fine on the backend.  I'm still scratching my head...
> 
> Bing

After testing more, now I've found if the pages are accessed via https, 
they do show pencils and the admin panel, but http doesn't.  How could 
that be?  hmmm.

Bing