[HTTPS-Everywhere] Embedded imgur images seem to be broken

[Yan Zhu]

+ Bryn of Imgur, who added the ruleset.

On 07/31/2014 05:18 PM, Nicholas Bendler wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> A few days to a week ago, I noticed that on several sites embedded imgur
> images would no longer load. I used the httpfox extension to see that
> imgur URLs were being 302-redirected to the image page, thus the image
> embed fails. This is a known imgur behavior for high-traffic referers
> like Facebook, but I was seeing this everywhere. I could not reproduce
> the issue with CURL and some test refers. I also tried modifying CURL's
> user-agent string (I use Pale Moon instead of Firefox) but that did not
> make a difference, either - I was still getting the actual image. Back
> in my browser, I disabled the HTTPS Everywhere rule for imgur, reloaded
> a test page, and it worked again.
> 
> I am using https-everywhere 3.5.3.
> 
> --Nick
> 
> 
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Yan Zhu  <yan at eff.org>, <yan at torproject.org>
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