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On newer versions of Firefox, the genome browser breaks #119

Closed philippbayer closed 10 years ago

philippbayer commented 10 years ago

Since the Biodalliance Javascript and all the tracks come from derkholm.net and biodalliance.org, newer versions of Firefox (>v 23) block that content since it's mixed - i.e., openSNP runs on SSL, these sites do not. This kills the genome browser.

See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Security/MixedContent/How_to_fix_website_with_mixed_content

A workaround for users is to click on the shield-icon on the top left corner and disable the feature, but that's ugly.

We can't really fix that on our side, it looks like derkholm.net doesn't support SSL, we could copy all their data and self-host so the data can be loaded via SSL - but I'm not sure under which rights the data itself is.

Any other ideas?

tsujigiri commented 10 years ago

Contact them?

gedankenstuecke commented 10 years ago

They are using open data resources afaik (the built of the human genome and refseq iirc), so it shouldn't be a problem. But: then we would have to run our own DAS server for that as well, which probably won't be able on the current setup, given the general load.

tsujigiri commented 10 years ago

I agree. We shouldn't replicate something, only because they don't offer SSL.

philippbayer commented 10 years ago

I've contacted them on their forum, waiting for reply

tsujigiri commented 10 years ago

:+1:

philippbayer commented 10 years ago

Biodalliance's server runs all DAS sources under https, fixed in 5558c569bdd7fd4fa66d16d0f7462a9d037e93d4

tsujigiri commented 10 years ago

Awesome!