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Uh-Oh; FR is Down Again
FR ^ | 7/23/2017 | Self

Posted on 07/23/2017 11:09:59 PM PDT by Boomer

Apparently the security (https) is having trouble with the name resolution or something


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Secure Connection Failed

The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.

The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified. Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.

1 posted on 07/23/2017 11:09:59 PM PDT by Boomer
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To: Boomer

Well that sucks


2 posted on 07/23/2017 11:11:20 PM PDT by onona (Stop stonewalling Judicial Watch and release the documents)
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To: Boomer

It doesn’t load a full page. Probably have to do that trick with changing it to 20 posts and threads or something. Guess I’ll just check back tomorrow rather than fight it tonight.


3 posted on 07/23/2017 11:11:51 PM PDT by Boomer (Only one religion/cult is a parasite when left untreated kills the host country.)
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To: lee martell; Froggie

Have you tried listening to the radio over the internet ?


4 posted on 07/23/2017 11:12:24 PM PDT by onona (Stop stonewalling Judicial Watch and release the documents)
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To: Boomer

iMac/Safari. No problems whatsoever.


5 posted on 07/23/2017 11:17:51 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: onona

You might want to tell the guy on the AM thread.


6 posted on 07/23/2017 11:23:08 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: All

No problems here...Mac Pro/Safari.

John/Jim only really need HTTPS on the donation page, login page and sign-up page, etc....encrypting my mundane posts seems like overkill!! ;-)


7 posted on 07/23/2017 11:25:47 PM PDT by Drago
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To: Boomer

Going back to the twenty items setting fixed the partial loading for me.


8 posted on 07/23/2017 11:26:12 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: Boomer
As far as I can tell, FR is not working at all on HTTPS.

It is working on HTTP.

But its functionality on HTTP is quite limited at the moment. The stuttering page problem is worse than usual. At a time of day when the server load must be very low (unless hordes of English-speaking Chinese have suddenly become interested in the notion of a Free Republic). Which leads me to suspect a software problem, not a hardware problem.

9 posted on 07/23/2017 11:36:08 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Boomer

Are you logged in?

Just kidding.


10 posted on 07/23/2017 11:38:47 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Don't check the news, check Cernovich on Twitter)
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To: Boomer

11 posted on 07/23/2017 11:49:39 PM PDT by xp38
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To: xp38

Seems to working normally again at the moment. Strange.


12 posted on 07/23/2017 11:58:12 PM PDT by Boomer (Only one religion/cult is a parasite when left untreated kills the host country.)
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To: Drago
encrypting my mundane posts seems like overkill!!

It's the trendy thing to do in webmaster-dom. Gotta be secure, dontcha know. Privacy matters!

In FR's context, all it means is, your ISP won't know where on FR you surfed or what, if anything, you posted, but it will still know that you are an FR user.

13 posted on 07/23/2017 11:58:27 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody

As far as I can tell, FR is not working at all on HTTPS.

It is working on HTTP.

Doctor, it hurts when I do this.
Doctor: don't do that.


14 posted on 07/23/2017 11:59:02 PM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: Boomer

And now it’s acting up again. Sigh.


15 posted on 07/24/2017 12:05:03 AM PDT by Boomer (Only one religion/cult is a parasite when left untreated kills the host country.)
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To: cynwoody

We aren’t the “super-secret underground conservative site”?!? :-) I am not experiencing the “HTTPS” error because Safari handles that differently than IE or Edge or FF, but I am still having the “partial page load” issue.

Additional info. on avoiding the “HTTPS errors” on Windows:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie9-windows_other/adding-site-to-trusted-zone/ced35991-bb8e-47a3-b6c0-24a5c3d3829f


16 posted on 07/24/2017 12:07:21 AM PDT by Drago
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To: Drago
I am not experiencing the “HTTPS” error

Are you actually using FR via HTTPS?

I get an empty response error when I try.

17 posted on 07/24/2017 12:15:03 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody

I am not “forcing” an “HTTPS://"; connection (just doing a “normal” “www.freerepublic.com/tag/*/index” call...my Safari browser sees that Https isn’t available and defaults to http. Chrome on my Mac doesn’t give an error either...are you forcing your browser to only accept HTTPS sites? The only way I get “no/empty response” error is if I force an HTTPS connection to FR by entering “ https://www.freerepublic.com/tag/*/index “.


18 posted on 07/24/2017 12:39:39 AM PDT by Drago
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To: cynwoody

Try this FR page and see what you get: https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/
(It is an https: page).


19 posted on 07/24/2017 12:42:47 AM PDT by Drago
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To: Drago
The original poster reported, "Secure connection failed".

I took that to mean that HTTPS was failing (what else could it mean?). Which I quickly confirmed by trying it myself (I normally connect via HTTP). IIRC, HTTPS used to work, but I can't see why you'd bother (it being neither banking, brokerage, legal advice, nor medicine nor national security).

But the real problem is, normal HTTP connections are returning partial pages and stopping.

Previously, you would get a partial page, then more of the page, then the rest of the page, then the page would be complete. Now, you are getting a partial page. Period. End of sentence.

IOW, the partial-page bug has gotten worse!

You can tell: if the page does not end in the standard footer, it is a partial page, even if your browser has been tricked into thinking the page is complete.

20 posted on 07/24/2017 12:56:09 AM PDT by cynwoody
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