[HTTPS-E Rulesets] Scientific American - Google Page Speed Service(?) breaking blogs

Christopher Liu cmliu00151 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 24 08:53:41 PST 2012


To whom it may concern:

It appears that Scientific American is now running an instance of
Google Page Speed Service for some images and stylesheets. Such files
refuse to load in https for some reason.

All affected pages are on blogs.scientificamerican.com, but the
offending files themselves are on www.scientificamerican.com.
See for example
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/2012/12/22/inaugural-issue-of-journal-of-cryptozoology/
, where at least the Scientific American logo is broken. The
stylesheet issue seems not to exist on all blog posts.

This requires a couple rules to undo the effects of the Page Speed Service:
<rule from="^https?://www\.scientificamerican\.com/(.+)\.pagespeed\.ce\..*$"
to="https://www.scientificamerican.com/$1" />
<rule from="^https?://www\.scientificamerican\.com/assets/css/screen/I\.main\.css\.pagespeed\.cf\.\w+\.css$"
to="https://www.scientificamerican.com/assets/css/screen/main.css" />
(These should probably be placed before the rule that handles
www.scientificamerican.com generally. The first rule fixes the images,
and the second fixes the stylesheet)

Thank you for your time and help.

C. Liu




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