[tor-bugs] #7584 [EFF-HTTPS Everywhere]: HTTPS Everywhere breaks links from PubMed to BiomedCentral

Wed Nov 28 16:53:45 UTC 2012

#7584: HTTPS Everywhere breaks links from PubMed to BiomedCentral
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 Reporter:  cypherpunks           |          Owner:  pde
     Type:  defect                |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                |      Milestone:     
Component:  EFF-HTTPS Everywhere  |        Version:     
 Keywords:                        |         Parent:     
   Points:                        |   Actualpoints:     
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 Using Firefox with HTTPS Everywhere add-on, start here:

 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23116330

 With HTTPS Everywhere enabled, click the link in the top-right corner,
 "Read Free Full Text at BioMedCentral"

 This will lead to

 http://www.biomedcentral.com:443/1756-0500/5/610/abstract

 and produce this error:

 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
 <html><head>
 <title>400 Bad Request</title>
 </head><body>
 <h1>Bad Request</h1>
 <p>Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.<br
 />
 Reason: You're speaking plain HTTP to an SSL-enabled server port.<br />
 Instead use the HTTPS scheme to access this URL, please.<br />
 <blockquote>Hint: <a
 href="https://127.0.0.1/"><b>https://127.0.0.1/</b></a></blockquote></p>
 <hr>
 <address>Apache/2.2.16 (Debian) Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 443</address>
 </body></html>

 Manually replacing "http" with "https" produces the correct page.

 With the "BioMed-Central" rule in HTTPS Everywhere disabled, the link
 works as expected (albeit without switching to https).

 I am using HTTPS-E 3.0.4 on Firefox 17.0 (Fedora 17)

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