[HTTPS-Everywhere] https-everywhere breaks web pages on Netflix.com

[William Allen Simpson]

(Apparently, this accidentally had the wrong reply settings.)

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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [HTTPS-Everywhere] https-everywhere breaks web pages on Netflix.com
Date: 	Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:26:15 -0500
From: 	no1lunchbox <no1lunchbox at gmail.com>
To: 	William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson at gmail.com>



Hi,

Thank you for checking into the matter.

Your description of the probem with member comments is correct - mine is incorrect; but I still experience the problem.

I really do have the viewing problems I described and I still think they are is caused by https-everywhere.

After secure login, if I view the page as:

http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/30_Rock/...

then no problems.

If I enable https-everywhere for Netflix and the page reloads as:

https://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/30_Rock/...

then problems as described.

If I disable https-everywhere for Netflix and the page reloads as:

http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/30_Rock/...

then no problems. I am making no other changes to Firefox or any other extension. Yes, I am using Noscript and many other extensions but I don't think this is a factor.

To check it another way: If  I disabled all extensions (including https-everywhere) and restarted Firefox. There are no problems viewing:

http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/30_Rock/...

The problems return if I hand-type the url as:

https://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/30_Rock/...

Technically it's Netflix's implementation of https that is the problem. The reason I reported it to you is I would probably not view https pages without your extension. I like the extension, and I like what your organization does.

I'm not a tech guy so I may have this wrong; but I am reporting the best explanation I can find.

Again, thank you for checking into this matter.