[HTTPS-E Rulesets] Microsoft (portions) does NOT work on HTTPS (Remove from 1.0.0Dev)

[Victor Garin]

Ok I seem to have found out why it was doing that.

It was because of Atdmt.com rule which was forcing the Microsoft URL to be
HTTPS even though we did not want it to.

I edited that rule, and now it works as expected.

https://github.com/vicgarin/Vic-s-Https-Everywhere

or

git://github.com/vicgarin/Vic-s-Https-Everywhere.git

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Victor Garin <vic.garin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Actually it seems to be something else.
>
> Because when I removed the 's' from the url:
> https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=1b544e90-7659-4bd9-9e51-2497c146af15&displaylang=en
>
> the exclusion pattern worked, i.e. I was redirected to:
> https://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=20
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Victor Garin <vic.garin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That exclusion pattern does not work:
>>
>> git://github.com/vicgarin/Vic-s-Https-Everywhere.git
>>
>> PS. Why do you have a dot after "/" i.e. "/."
>>
>>
>>
>>  On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Seth David Schoen <schoen at eff.org>wrote:
>>
>>> Victor Garin writes:
>>>
>>> > I wanted to download the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor.
>>> >
>>> > I went to http://windows.microsoft.com/upgradeadvisor
>>> >
>>> > then when I click "Download the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor" it gives me
>>> > a blank HTTPS page:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=1b544e90-7659-4bd9-9e51-2497c146af15&displaylang=en
>>> >
>>> > Not sure if HTTPS Everywhere can remove selectively for example:
>>> >
>>> > IF Microsoft URL has "FamilyID" don't use https.
>>>
>>> Yes, it's called an "exclusion pattern", like
>>>
>>> <exclusion pattern="^http://www\.microsoft\.com/.*FamilyID" />
>>>
>>> Want to test it after adding that to your Microsoft.com rule?  If
>>> that fixes this problem, we can certainly put that in by default.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Seth Schoen  <schoen at eff.org>
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>>>
>>
>>
>
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