[HTTPS-Everywhere] HTTPS Everywhere bug - Wikipedia

[Robert]

See thread here:
https://mail1.eff.org/pipermail/https-everywhere/2010-July/000056.html

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rob

On 23 July 2010 23:42, Erik Harris <erik at eharrishome.com> wrote:
> I've noticed a rather annoying bug in HTTPS-Everywhere. If you search for
> something on Google, and click on the hit from Wikipedia, it takes you to a
> 404 error page, attempting to get to
> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/ArticleName link that is not
> correct.  After the 404 displays for a moments, it attemps to auto-forward
> to the redundant-looking
> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wikipedia/en/wiki/ArticleName
> address, which also doesn't work.
>
> However, when I search Wikipedia directly using Firefox search, it finds the
> correct page, at https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/ArticleName
> - oddly, that appears to be the same URL as the 404 error when clicking
> through from Google.
>
> I'm using HTTPS-Everywhere 0.2.2.development.1 on Firefox 4.0b1 in Windows 7
> x64.
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