[HTTPS-Everywhere] Wikipedia problem

[Peter Eckersley]

We think we worked out why this was happening, and it should really and trully
be fixed here:

https://www.eff.org/files/https-everywhere-0.2.2.development.3.xpi

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 08:45:55AM -0700, Bradford Patrick wrote:
> Sorry, same behavior.  Google search for random word, "birdhouse" turns up:
> 
> https://encrypted.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=16&ved=0CGcQFjAP&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBirdhouse&ei=H3JETOfaC87SlQen3sSEAQ&usg=AFQjCNEw_YQCF53g-wKsczVclllktRm88g&sig2=4RjaBTP5LE5byUiXxRXhow
> 
> This in turn produces a 404, which redirects in five seconds to:
> 
> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wikipedia/en/wiki/Birdhouse
> 
> Which doesn't exist. The correct URL is "https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Birdhouse"
> 
> Search your code for wherever "Wikipedia" is capitalized.  URLs are case sensitive in MediaWiki, and the /en/wiki/*W*ikipedia is the tell.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Brad
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pde at eff.org [mailto:pde at eff.org] 
> Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 6:33 AM
> To: No http; Bradford Patrick
> Cc: https-everywhere at mail1.eff.org
> Subject: Re: [HTTPS-Everywhere] Wikipedia problem
> 
> Brad + No HTTP, 
> 
> Can you guys try this new experimental release and see if it fixes the
> Wikipedia glitch?
> 
> https://www.eff.org/files/https-everywhere-0.2.2.development.2.xpi
> 
> On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 10:19:12AM +0100, No http wrote:
> > On 16 July 2010 19:59, Bradford Patrick <BradPatrick at baplegal.com> wrote:
> > > It appears the latest version breaks the concatenation string for URL
> > >  https://secure.wikipedia.org/ ++ and renders all Wikipedia links invalid.
> > > The proper directory structure for Wikipedia is
> > > https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Main_Page, however, if I
> > > click on a result from Google, the result is a 404 with the URL suggested as
> > > https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wikipedia/en/wiki/Main_Page.
> > 
> > 
> > Beat me to it, was just going to post the same thing.  When you search
> > for a Wikipidia entry, eg Tor project, from and external search engine
> > and you go to the page, it gives you a 404 error before redirecting
> > you.  The strange things is, the page url is valid as when you search
> > in Wikipedia it works fine.
> > 
> > eg:
> > - Search tor "Tor project" in google.  It suggests URL:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)
> > 
> > - HTTPS-Everywhere redirects to:
> > https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Tor_%28anonymity_network%29
> > 
> > - Wikipedia gives a 404 on the page and then redirects to:
> > https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wikipedia/en/wiki/Tor_%28anonymity_network%29
> > 
> > Simply refreshing the page that gives a 404 (before it redirects) or
> > searching from with in secure.wikimedia.org will result in the url
> > working as expected, in this case
> > https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Tor_%28anonymity_network%29
> > loading the Tor Project content.
> > 
> > This started happening with 0.2.2 dev1
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> Peter Eckersley                            pde at eff.org
> Senior Staff Technologist         Tel  +1 415 436 9333 x131
> Electronic Frontier Foundation    Fax  +1 415 436 9993

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Peter Eckersley                            pde at eff.org
Senior Staff Technologist         Tel  +1 415 436 9333 x131
Electronic Frontier Foundation    Fax  +1 415 436 9993