[HTTPS-E Rulesets] Java download broken

Drake, Brian brian2 at drakefamily.tk
Sat Jun 25 02:52:37 PDT 2011


Sorry, the previous message was sent to the wrong list (sent to
https-everywhere when it should have been sent to https-everywhere-rules,
like the message I was replying to).

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 0113 (UTC-8), Drake, Brian <brian2 at drakefamily.tk>wrote:

> You can use this line to make sure that the HTTP URI isn’t redirected to
> the HTTPS one in the first place by HTTPS Everywhere, just to be safe:
>
> <exclusion pattern="^http://www
> \.java\.com/inc/BrowserRedirect1.jsp\?locale=en$"/>
>
> Usually, we would stop here, but if you really want that HTTP URI, you
> should be able to get it the usual way (may not work in recent versions of
> HTTPS Everywhere):
>
> <rule from="^https://www\.java\.com/inc/BrowserRedirect1.jsp\?locale=en$"
> to="http://www.java.com/inc/BrowserRedirect1.jsp?locale=en"/>
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 0841 (UTC-8), Sean Beernink <
> mailtoignore at seanbeernink.nl> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> When visiting this URL i'm unable to download Java:
>> https://www.java.com/en/**download/index.jsp<https://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp>
>> Browser keeps hanging (Firefox) and Internet Explorer gives a 404.
>> It works from http://www.java.com/en/**download/index.jsp<http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp>
>> .
>>
>> Is it possible to force an https url back to http so we can exclude
>> https://www.java.com/inc/**BrowserRedirect1.jsp?locale=en<https://www.java.com/inc/BrowserRedirect1.jsp?locale=en>(probaly the url that breaks the rule)
>>
>> Sean.
>>
>
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> Brian Drake
> [snip]
>

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