[HTTPS-E Rulesets] HTTPS Everywhere rules issue

Calin Chiorean calin at firstdigest.com
Fri Mar 2 14:25:29 PST 2012


Dear team

PollDaddy.com is offering free embeddable polls and the service use is
quite spread over web pages. For a while I noticed that the polls on my
blog are not appearing in Firefox, but have no issue appearing in other
browsers.

After checking and re-checking for some internal errors in the Wordpress
code, I realized that the difference in Firefox vs other browser is EFF
HTTPS Everywhere 2.0.

The Javascript code from polldaddy.com include something like:

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"
src="http://static.polldaddy.com/p/5890773.js"></script>

The issue is that static.polldaddy.com has no support for https, only
http. Since HTTPS Everywhere 2.0 include polldaddy.com in its original
rules, you can figure it out what's the outcome.

I know I can disable that particular rule, but I think there are people
out there which are just using the plugin as default and have no idea
about rules and so on. They will be surprised not to find any
polldaddy.com polls while surfing with Firefox.

Maybe you can contact PollDaddy or remove from now the polldaddy.com
default rule. I don't know how to proceed further, but I wanted you to know.

Thank you all for this excellent plugin! Keep on the good work!

Best regards,
Calin Chiorean
http://www.firstdigest.com



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