[clug] firefox started rewriting http->https?

Eyal Lebedinsky eyal at eyal.emu.id.au
Sun Jun 12 01:06:50 UTC 2016


On 06/12/16 10:31, Arjen Lentz wrote:
>
>
> Hi Eyal
>
> Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal at eyal.emu.id.au> schreef op 12 juni 2016 09:33:56 GMT+10:00:
>> In the last few days I have a problem where the browser goes to
>> https:// when I request http://.
>
> I've observed this with various browsers: firefox,  chromium, chrome. And different versions.
>
> One thing I noticed is that https seems to "stick" if part of a domain was once https.

Yes, however this is not what I see. I now get http->https replaced whenever I access a site
that was never accessed with https.

I made some progress though, restoring prefs.js from earlier this month stops this.
I am now bisecting the changes there.

> Regards,
> Arjen.

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Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal at eyal.emu.id.au)



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