[HTTPS-Everywhere] HTTPS Everywhere plugin interfering with access to KDE.org websites

[Ben Cooksley]

Hello List,

Resending this again. Configuring your mailing list to only accept
mail from subscribers is extremely rude, especially when it is listed
as the support / developer contact on Mozilla's addons.mozilla.org
website.

I'm now quite irritated. Please review the below and act expediently.

Regards,
Ben

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 9:16 PM, Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've received a report that your HTTPS Everywhere extension for
> Mozilla Firefox is causing users of one of our websites problems.
>
> The issue concerns access to certain subpages of
> http://developers.kde.org/. One of the remaining subpages is
> http://developer.kde.org/~cfeck/portingstatus.html
>
> This is an older, and essentially retired subdomain that now primarily
> redirects to techbase.kde.org (which fully supports https). It
> therefore does not support https - it is only retained for legacy
> compatibility.
>
> None the less, users are finding that their urls are being transformed
> anyway - only instead of a non-working
> https://developer.kde.org/~cfeck/portingstatus.html they get
> https://techbase.kde.org/~cfeck/portingstatus.html - a URL which will
> never work.
>
> This is not the first time such a report has been received in relation
> to this specific subdomain - however in previous instances it was
> thought to be cached browser behaviour or similar. A clear pattern has
> now emerged that the HTTPS Everywhere plugin is at clear fault.
> Disabling the plugin or otherwise rendering it inert resolves the
> issue.
>
> I'd like to request you debug and correct the fault in your plugin as
> soon as possible.
>
> Regards,
> Ben Cooksley
> KDE Sysadmin