A Page on Google Answers Does Not Load with NoScript On

shlomif · Post by **shlomif** » Sat May 07, 2016 9:03 am

The page http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=297209 and other pages on answers.google.com do not load with NoScript on. They take a long while to load and do not display anything. I have whitelisted JS from the .google.com domain. Tried with firefox-46.0.1-linux-x86-64 from getfirefox.com and firefox-45.1.0-2.mga6 on mageia x86-64 v6 and an older firefox-38.x on mageia x86-64 v5. Firefox loads the page fine if you disable NoScript and so does chromium-browser . I'm using the latest version of NoScript from addons.mozilla.org.

Please look into fixing it.

Post by **therube** » Sat May 07, 2016 11:19 am

How do you like that.

Error Console is being spammed, non-stop presumably, with:

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[NoScript HTTPS] Redirected Channel https://answers.google.com/answers/

Also places.sqlite / places.sqlite-wal are also being spammed, non-stop.

(places.sqlite activity did subside - eventually. But I gather whatever it was doing, like updating a visit count or something similar must have had a huge backlog because it was a LONG time after I got answers to work before that activity subsided. [I'd think that's a bug on Mozilla's end, perhaps. Or at least in a situation like this, they ought to at some point cut off the data flow/update on the premise that something isn't right.])

NoScript | Options | Advanced -> HTTPS => Never force secure (HTTPS) connections for the following sites:
answers.google.com

(And that's only a work-around.)

Post by **barbaz** » Sat May 07, 2016 3:15 pm

https://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=297209 gives this:

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<head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
<title>302 Moved</title></head><body>
<h1>302 Moved</h1>
The document has moved
<a href="http://answers.google.com/answers/">here</a>.

</body>

I can't even go to https://answers.google.com/answers/ without getting immediately redirected to plain http. (Apparently NoRedirect does not stop such redirections, when URL is the same except for protocol change https -> http.)

Post by **Thrawn** » Sun May 08, 2016 11:39 pm

Probably this is because google.com is on the default whitelist, therefore forced HTTPS?

Can you add answers.google.com to the exceptions? Options - Advanced - HTTPS - Behavior - Never force secure connections...

Post by **barbaz** » Mon May 09, 2016 12:15 am

Thrawn wrote:Probably this is because google.com is on the default whitelist, therefore forced HTTPS?

Yep, that would be it.

Post by **Thrawn** » Wed May 11, 2016 5:28 am

This should be considered a blocker, then, for forcing HTTPS on the default whitelist. Giorgio, should https.defWhitelist be defaulted to false? Or perhaps answers.google.com could be populated in the force-HTTPS exceptions by default?

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