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politico.com ruleset broken #9000
Description
Politico.com URLs are being rewritten incorrectly.
For example:
http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/03/national-obesity-tracking-experiemnt-000335
Is rewritten to:
https://secure.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/03/national-obesity-tracking-experiemnt-000335
Reacted by Jonathan Rudenberg, DeltaVe, Diego Mesa, Carl Z, James Woglom, Deutrino and Matt Einhorn
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liquidsunshine commentedon Mar 12, 2017
I can confirm that this happens for me as well. Chrome 57.0.2987.98 (64-bit) on Ubuntu 16.04.2.
To elaborate, the redirect results in a 404, and this seems to happen consistently with Politico links I have clicked on. Disabling the "Politico.com (partial)" rule fixes the issue.
Iteratrix commentedon Mar 17, 2017
I can also confirm this, both with Chrome 56.0.2924.87 (64-bit) on El Capitan 10.11.4 and and with Firefox Mobile on Android.
To provide another example, this:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/why-courts-shouldnt-try-to-read-trumps-mind-214921
is rewritten to:
https://secure.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/why-courts-shouldnt-try-to-read-trumps-mind-214921
diego898 commentedon Mar 21, 2017
I can also confirm - Is there a workaround besides right-clicking and opening incognito?
liquidsunshine commentedon Mar 21, 2017
@diego898 - You can disable the Politico rule individually. That should work around the issue. However, until/unless it can be properly fixed, I think the rule should be removed from HTTPS Everywhere.
deutrino commentedon Mar 26, 2017
This is happening for me on Chromium 56.0.2924.76 and Firefox 52.0.1 on Linux.
For people who are unfamiliar, a ruleset can be disabled by clicking the HTTPS Everywhere icon when on the site and then unchecking the "Politico (partial)" checkbox.
diego898 commentedon Mar 27, 2017
@gordon-morehouse thank you for the clear instructions!
diego898 commentedon Apr 10, 2017
Do I have to manually re-enable this rule if/when the issue is fixed?
Fix broken politico.com ruleset and add tests; fixes EFForg#9000
cschanaj commentedon Apr 13, 2017
Related: #9361
J0WI commentedon Apr 14, 2017
The rule has been disabled in #9528
deutrino commentedon Apr 15, 2017
It might be good to address pull request #9518 before forgetting about this, because I fixed every problem that I was able to observe.
Fix broken politico.com ruleset and add tests; fixes #9000 (#9518)