Re: Firefox HTTPS-only mode breaks sites that return 404 for HTTPS connections

From	Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Firefox HTTPS-only mode breaks sites that return 404 for HTTPS connections
Date	2021-04-15 04:20 +0200
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On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 22:57:01 +0100
piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> wrote:

> On 14/04/2021 17:19, Celejar wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I recently switched to Firefox's native HTTPS-Only mode from the
> > HTTPS Everywhere extension, and I've just made the nasty discovery that
> > a bunch of links that had been returning 404, which I had been assuming
> > were dead links, were actually perfectly valid pages, which Firefox had
> > been "upgrading" to HTTPS, and then getting 404s from web servers that
> > weren't offering them via HTTPS (but still apparently accepting
> > connections via HTTPS). Clicking on the little lock icon and turning
> > HTTPS-Only mode off for the website doesn't seem to have any effect -
> > the only thing that lets me actually access these pages is turning off
> > HTTPS-Only mode via the general Settings page (or about:config).
> >
> > When the website doesn't offer HTTPS at all, then Firefox offers to
> > connect via HTTP, after a warning, and that's fine. But having pages
> > become completely inaccessible is intolerable - I now have to check
> > every 404 I get by turning off HTTPS-Only mode and seeing if the
> > page is actually there. Am I missing something here, or is HTTPS-Only
> > mode just badly broken?
> 
> It certainly works fine for me. I use https only mode for many months
> now. Can you bring an example of a page which returns good page on http,
> but 404 error on https?

http://www.daat.ac.il/
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Celejar

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Firefox HTTPS-only mode breaks sites that return 404 for HTTPS  connections Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-04-14 18:20 +0200
  Re: Firefox HTTPS-only mode breaks sites that return 404 for HTTPS connections riveravaldez <riveravaldezmail@gmail.com> - 2021-04-14 21:10 +0200
    Re: Firefox HTTPS-only mode breaks sites that return 404 for HTTPS  connections Nito <nito@dismail.de> - 2021-04-15 02:40 +0200
    Re: Firefox HTTPS-only mode breaks sites that return 404 for HTTPS  connections Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-04-15 04:30 +0200
  Re: Firefox HTTPS-only mode breaks sites that return 404 for HTTPS  connections piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2021-04-15 00:00 +0200
    Re: Firefox HTTPS-only mode breaks sites that return 404 for HTTPS  connections Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-04-15 04:20 +0200
      Re: Firefox HTTPS-only mode breaks sites that return 404 for HTTPS connections Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2021-04-15 05:00 +0200
        Re: Firefox HTTPS-only mode breaks sites that return 404 for HTTPS connections Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2021-04-15 06:00 +0200
          Re: Firefox HTTPS-only mode breaks sites that return 404 for HTTPS connections Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2021-04-15 07:20 +0200
            Re: Firefox HTTPS-only mode breaks sites that return 404 for HTTPS  connections Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-04-15 15:40 +0200
              Re: Firefox HTTPS-only mode breaks sites that return 404 for HTTPS connections Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2021-04-15 16:40 +0200
              Re: Firefox HTTPS-only mode breaks sites that return 404 for HTTPS  connections Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2021-04-16 03:10 +0200
                Re: Firefox HTTPS-only mode breaks sites that return 404 for HTTPS  connections Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2021-04-16 10:40 +0200
              Re: Firefox HTTPS-only mode breaks sites that return 404 for HTTPS  connections Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-04-16 12:40 +0200
      Re: Firefox HTTPS-only mode breaks sites that return 404 for HTTPS  connections piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2021-04-15 12:20 +0200
        Re: Firefox HTTPS-only mode breaks sites that return 404 for HTTPS  connections Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2021-04-15 12:50 +0200
          Re: Firefox HTTPS-only mode breaks sites that return 404 for HTTPS  connections Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-04-15 14:40 +0200
            Re: Firefox HTTPS-only mode breaks sites that return 404 for HTTPS  connections Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-04-15 14:40 +0200
        Re: Firefox HTTPS-only mode breaks sites that return 404 for HTTPS  connections Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-04-15 13:30 +0200
        Re: Firefox HTTPS-only mode breaks sites that return 404 for HTTPS  connections Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-04-15 14:20 +0200
          Re: Firefox HTTPS-only mode breaks sites that return 404 for HTTPS  connections Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2021-04-15 14:40 +0200
            Re: Firefox HTTPS-only mode breaks sites that return 404 for HTTPS  connections Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-04-15 17:20 +0200
          Re: Firefox HTTPS-only mode breaks sites that return 404 for HTTPS  connections mett <mett@pmars.jp> - 2021-04-15 14:50 +0200
            Re: Firefox HTTPS-only mode breaks sites that return 404 for HTTPS  connections piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2021-04-15 16:20 +0200
              Re: Firefox HTTPS-only mode breaks sites that return 404 for HTTPS  connections Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> - 2021-04-15 16:50 +0200
                Re: Firefox HTTPS-only mode breaks sites that return 404 for HTTPS  connections piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2021-04-15 17:50 +0200
                Re: Firefox HTTPS-only mode breaks sites that return 404 for HTTPS  connections Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-04-16 13:30 +0200

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