[tor-relays] Atlas is now Relay Search!

[Sebastian Hahn]

> On 14. Nov 2017, at 19:26, teor <teor2345 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 15 Nov 2017, at 05:05, Sebastian Hahn <mail at sebastianhahn.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Hey,
>> 
>>> On 14. Nov 2017, at 19:00, teor <teor2345 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 15 Nov 2017, at 02:41, Iain R. Learmonth <irl at torproject.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> On 14/11/17 15:35, Ralph Seichter wrote:
>>>>> On 14.11.17 13:52, Iain R. Learmonth wrote:
>>>>> I also notice that the "new look" does not work in Safari 11 on macOS
>>>>> 10.13.1 (High Sierra). For shame! Has nobody tested this?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Problem detail: When accessing https://atlas.torproject.org/ , the query
>>>>> box and explanatory text are missing in Safari. See screenshot at
>>>>> https://imgur.com/a/XnA9f . Searching works fine in Chrome and Firefox
>>>>> on macOS.
>>>> 
>>>> This would seem suboptimal.
>>> 
>>> Atlas never loads in Safari on  iOS 11.1.1 on my iPad Mini.
>>> I just see a spinning grey and black wheel for 30+ seconds.
>>> 
>>> Given Apple's iOS app WebKit rules, this likely means that *all* iOS
>>> browsers and embedded web views are broken.
>>> 
>>> I have confirmed the same issue in the Twitter apps web view, and it
>>> seems to also affect OnionBrowser, with slightly different symptoms.
>>> 
>>> If you've broken the second-largest mobile platform, want to revert
>>> until it's fixed?
>>> 
>>>> I will look into it, unfortunately I have not tested on all the
>>>> platforms as I just don't have them available.
>>> 
>>> Maybe we need a beta site and a call for testing for changes like this?
>> 
>> I believe this is the caching issue again. A beta site likely would not
>> have revealed this issue. You really need to break caches for updates to
>> web apps, hopefully those can be implemented without too much pain.
> 
> No, it isn't: one of the new resources appears to be blocked by AdBlock
> Plus for iOS. So it only works with content blockers turned off. You probably
> want to fix this eventually, because these blocklists are popular. And the
> issue likely affects multiple platforms. But it's not an all iOS devices bug.
> 
> Interestingly, it works in the Facebook app web view. Somehow it doesn't
> surprise me that Facebook is allowed to break the iOS app rules.

Oh wow, interesting. We only load resources from *tpo so I wonder what would
get blocked. In the meantime, I've written a cache busting patch that'll
hopefully improve the situation for desktop browsers. Careful review
necessary, I don't do much web stuff these days...


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