https-finder causes pages to reload repeatedly (Fixed, will close at next release)

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Browse to website
2. Page reloads over and over

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.30 Windows 7 x64 SP1 / Firefox 3.6/4.0

Please provide any additional information below.

This problem exists with two pages I identified before disabling the plugin:

Amazon Askville (any question page) - http://http://askville.amazon.com/Index.do
Youtube (any video) - http://youtube.com

Original issue reported on code.google.com by josh.pru...@gmail.com on 23 Mar 2011 at 6:53

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LinkedIn also does this sometimes.  Right now I'm getting the whitelisting 
(ignore domain list) for the next release, but once that is done I'll look into 
ways to detect and automatically whitelist these sites that go into a load 
loop.  Thanks for the submission

Original comment by jacobsK...@gmail.com on 23 Mar 2011 at 7:12

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Thanks for the comment.

Wouldn't it be better to fix the problem that causes the load looping than to 
avoid it by whitelisting the sites where the problem occurs?

Original comment by josh.pru...@gmail.com on 23 Mar 2011 at 7:15

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I don't believe there's anything that can done within the extension to avoid 
the looping other than whitelisting domain.  

Looking at the HTTP headers sent in the detection (to the askville.amazon.com 
for instancee), it's getting a code 200 (OK) response from the server for 
HTTPS, but when we try to connect, the server itself redirects that connection 
back to the HTTP page.  (Then we try to detect again, and start an infinite 
loop). 

Since the issue comes from server side configuration there's not much we can do 
other than detect it and 'remember' that site in the future.  There's a similar 
extension for Google Chrome and they used this same method to remedy the 
problem.  (That is, unless I'm missing something :))

Original comment by jacobsK...@gmail.com on 23 Mar 2011 at 7:27

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Original comment by jacobsK...@gmail.com on 7 May 2011 at 3:43

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Fixed in version 0.56. Will undergo more testing then be released. Leaving 
issue open until then.

Original comment by jacobsK...@gmail.com on 7 May 2011 at 10:53

• Changed title: https-finder causes pages to reload repeatedly (Fixed, will close at next release)

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it happens also on blogger.com. I am on Windows 7 x64 using firefox 4.01 and 
waterfox 4.01 (it´s an x64 build). Blogger uses ssl ONLY for login. Once 
logged in https finder keeps blogger loading,and reloading. 

Original comment by pachaval...@gmail.com on 21 May 2011 at 9:51

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Thanks for the post. 

If you're using 0.51 you can manually whitelist it.  There's also a development 
version of 0.58 here: 
https://code.google.com/p/https-finder/downloads/detail?name=httpsfinder058dev.x
pi which will flag and whitelist it automatically.

I'll be releasing one more test version this weekend, and submitting it to 
Mozilla soon after.

Original comment by jacobsK...@gmail.com on 21 May 2011 at 9:57

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Fixed and released in 0.65dev build. Will submit to Mozilla this week after a 
little more testing. 

https://code.google.com/p/https-finder/downloads/detail?name=httpsfinder065dev.x
pi

Original comment by jacobsK...@gmail.com on 22 May 2011 at 8:56

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Nice work!

Thank you very much.

Original comment by josh.pru...@gmail.com on 22 May 2011 at 8:57

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Original comment by jacobsK...@gmail.com on 23 May 2011 at 6:58

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