[HTTPS-Everywhere] now working, was: the new EFF "https everywhere"... glitche with NY Times and wikipedia

[danny burstein]

I followed the instruction over at, umm, somewhere here and looked
around my drive for the various files. The directories were in
place but lots of stuff was missing.

I uninstalled, then re-installed, https everywhere. It's working
ok now.

'tiz a puzzlement.


[material underneath left for reference]

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On Sun, 7 Aug 2011, danny burstein wrote:

> I just pulled over the upgrade and seem to have run into
> a glitch. TTBOMK, when I used to (with the older version)
> head over to wikipedia, I _always_ got routed to the
> secure version. In other words typing:
>
>    http://en.wikipedia.org
>
> - was converted to:
>
>    https://secure.wikimedia.org
>
> (hmm, never noticed that wikipedia:wikimedia switch)
>
> anyway, since the download, when I type in the
> regular "wikipedia.org" I seem to be going to
> the url I typed, namely the cleartext one.
>
> If anyone else out there had Mac OS X 10.5.8 and
> you're running FF, could you see if you get the
> same results?
> 	 ---------------------------
> and also... the NY Times.
>
> with the new update I'm getting:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/pages/nyregion/index.html
>
> as opposed to:
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/pages/nyregion/index.html
>
>
> Thanks
>
> [a] https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2011/08/04
>
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