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HTTPS Finder refreshes pages unexpectedly instead of testing for HTTPS in the background #62

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Click a Fishbowl e-mail link (Example: Applebees birthday e-mail) that shows 
a coupon once
2. HTTPS Finder happily refreshes the page automatically to HTTPS
3. The coupon flashes on the screen then refuses to load again

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I wanted it to not automatically refresh, but it automatically refreshed.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.85 on OS X 10.7 in Firefox 16.0

Please provide any additional information below.

I like the idea of HTTPS Finder, but why can't it try these things in the 
background? I have been whitelisting a ton of sites but this bug takes the 
cake. Why can't HTTPS finder, instead of defaulting to HTTPS and giving me the 
option to whitelist, say "HTTPS found for this site, do you want to switch?"

It could even be done as an alternate method of "discovery" in the background. 
I wager if HTTPS Everywhere already knew that https://applebees.fbmta.com 
existed, it wouldn't have had the chance to load the http version first and 
would have succeeded in the ViewOnce coupon displaying.

Thanks.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by tob...@gmail.com on 15 Oct 2012 at 11:27

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Nevermind, I didn't know there was a way to set it to not do this. I still have 
bugs while it's performing discovery in the background and suggesting the HTTPS 
connection (which it does in a loop on amazon's main page, as I guess they want 
to force http for it, but all sub-pages work fine), because for some reason it 
empties my cart on Newegg and Monoprice.

Steps:

While HTTPS finder is running in the "suggest https version" mode, add an item 
to your cart on monoprice. then put in your zipcode to check for shipping 
costs. It will empty your cart. Disabling extensions one at a time led me to 
find that it is HTTPS finder that causes it.  Why, I don't know.

Original comment by tob...@gmail.com on 21 Nov 2012 at 6:53