Forums Upgraded, Now More Friendly Towards HTTPS

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Forums Upgraded, Now More Friendly Towards HTTPS

Apologies for the brief downtime this evening of the forums with upgrading to the latest major release of the forum software...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=VB-5.2-Forum-Upgrade

[slacka]

Not sure if it was the recent upgrade to FF44 or the forum software, but the big forum navigation buttons are now working again in Firefox . One less reason to use Chrome.

[Anvil]

Michael . you might wanna follow this thread to http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forum...-functionality

[F1esDgSdUTYpm0iy]

Ugggh... vBulletin. Anyhow, good to know HTTPS is applied more thoroughly now, might also mean better functionality in conjunction with HTTPS Everywhere. And, never mind any downtime. It's for a good cause so I'm sure most people would be with me in thanking you for staying on top of things.

[Zan Lynx]

Not quite there yet. I did a cache flush and forced reload and still had these. These are probably from vBulletin, but in case they're not...

22:37:04.605 Blocked loading mixed active content "http://www.phoronix.com/forums/css.php?styleid=22&td=ltr&sheet=css_reset.css,css_unreset.css,css_utilities.css&ts=1455326213"[Learn More] forums
22:37:04.607 Blocked loading mixed active content "http://www.phoronix.com/forums/css.php?styleid=22&td=ltr&sheet=css_imgareaselect-animated.css,css_jquery-ui-1_8_14_custom.css,css_jquery_qtip_min.css,css_jquery_selectBox.css,css_global.css,css_fonts.css,css_b_link.css,css_b_layout.css,css_b_button.css,css_b_button_group.css,css_b_dropdown.css,css_b_icon.css,css_b_tabbed_pane.css,css_b_form_control.css,css_b_form_input.css,css_b_form_select.css,css_b_form_textarea.css,css_b_media.css,css_b_divider.css,css_b_avatar.css,css_b_ajax_loading_indicator.css,css_b_topicpreview.css,css_b_menu.css,css_responsive.css&ts=1455326213"[Learn More] forums
22:37:04.608 Blocked loading mixed active content "http://www.phoronix.com/forums/js/header-rollup-520.js"[Learn More] forums
22:37:04.609 Blocked loading mixed active content "http://www.phoronix.com/forums/css.php?styleid=22&td=ltr&sheet=css_b_top_background.css&ts=1455326213"[Learn More] forums
22:37:04.611 Blocked loading mixed active content "http://www.phoronix.com/forums/css.php?styleid=22&td=ltr&sheet=css_b_module.css&ts=1455326213"[Learn More] forums
22:37:04.612 Blocked loading mixed active content "http://www.phoronix.com/forums/css.php?styleid=22&td=ltr&sheet=css_b_post_sm.css&ts=1455326213"[Learn More] forums
22:37:04.612 Blocked loading mixed active content "http://www.phoronix.com/forums/css.php?styleid=22&td=ltr&sheet=css_additional.css&ts=1455326213"[Learn More] forums
22:37:04.630 Loading mixed (insecure) display content "http://www.phoronix.com/forums/core/images/default/default_avatar_thumb.png" on a secure page[Learn More] forums
22:37:04.633 Loading mixed (insecure) display content "http://www.phoronix.com/phxcms7-css/phoronix.png" on a secure page[Learn More] forums
22:37:04.634 GET
http://www.phoronix.com/forums/core/images/default/default_avatar_thumb.png [Mixed Content]
[HTTP/1.1 200 OK 158ms]
22:37:04.636 GET
http://www.phoronix.com/phxcms7-css/phoronix.png [Mixed Content]
[HTTP/1.1 200 OK 157ms]
22:37:04.653 Loading mixed (insecure) display content "http://www.phoronix.com/forums/favicon.ico" on a secure page[Learn More] ContentLinkHandler.jsm:169:8
22:37:04.669 Blocked loading mixed active content "http://www.phoronix.com/forums/js/footer-rollup-520.js"[Learn More] forums
22:37:04.688 Loading mixed (insecure) display content "http://www.phoronix.com/forums/core/images/default/default_avatar_medium.png" on a secure page[Learn More] forums
22:37:04.689 GET
http://www.phoronix.com/forums/core/images/default/default_avatar_medium.png

[GraysonPeddie]

Clicking in forums link from the home page while in HTTPS resulted in broken forum page, leading me to think that CSS file is missing.

Google Chrome version 48.0.2564.97 (64-bit)

[dEnigma]

The favicon of the forum is back to the default vbulletin favicon. I'm pretty sure you had a personalized one before, but I could be wrong.

[chithanh]

The forum browsing experience using https has actually worsened for me.

As GraysonPeeddie said, CSS and other resources are loaded through http and thus will be blocked by Chrome and Mozilla browsers. Also there are still many links which lead out of https and back into http.

$ curl "https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/851870-forums-upgraded-now-more-friendly-towards-https" | grep -c "https://www.phoronix.com/forums/"
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$ curl "https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/851870-forums-upgraded-now-more-friendly-towards-https" | grep -c "http://www.phoronix.com/forums/"                          
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It really should be the other way round.

[Awesome Donkey]

The favicon of the forum is back to the default vbulletin favicon. I'm pretty sure you had a personalized one before, but I could be wrong.

This. The vBulletin favicon shows itself in Chrome whereas Firefox seems to load the correct one. Might need to look into this one.

[Michael]

This. The vBulletin favicon shows itself in Chrome whereas Firefox seems to load the correct one. Might need to look into this one.

At first when uploading the new vB, accidentally uploaded the VB one. So in Chrome it must be stuck in your browser cache. Should then be cleared soon when your cache clears.