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Chrome beta 49 on Android can't seem to detect my URLs #611

Closed leopck closed 8 years ago

leopck commented 8 years ago

I'm currently trying the Chrome beta 49 on my Asus Zenfone 2 Lollipop, but I can't seem to get the Physical Web on the Chrome to detect my URLs however, if I use the Physical Web android app version I can detect my URLs.

My beacons are implemented using https://github.com/google/eddystone/tree/master/eddystone-url/implementations/linux-url-advertiser and I also tried https://github.com/don/node-eddystone-beacon neither of them are showing anything on my Physical web Chrome version.

So far the only links I managed to see the output on the Physical web Chrome is from these two links "https://goo.gl/SkcDTN" or "https://www.google.com". If I attempt to send "http://www.google.com" or "http://www.engadget.com", the Physical web Chrome doesn't show it.

I've also tried to use Google URL shortener, but doesn't seem to work either. Am I missing something?

dermike commented 8 years ago

@leopck Chrome only shows links using https at the moment

leopck commented 8 years ago

I see, is there any plans on supporting http? If yes, when would the support be in?

scottjenson commented 8 years ago

There are no plans on supporting HTTP as the Chrome team sees this as a security risk. Most of the web is moving to HTTPS for the same reason.

leopck commented 8 years ago

Alright, it's an understandable reasoning. Thank you very much.