[GTALUG] Toronto Star videos no longer work

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Fri Apr 24 18:59:25 UTC 2015


On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 02:54:33PM -0400, James Knott wrote:
> I've found I can get the videos by disabling it for thestar.com and also
> Newslook.
> 
> The idea behind HTTPS Everywhere is to use HTTPS whenever possible. 
> However, some sites, such as thestar.com can cause problems.  So, when
> you identify those sites, you can configure HTTPS Everywhere to not try
> to use HTTPS on them.

Which would then be using it correctly.  Best would be to have a proper
rule added for the site that knows which parts can't be moved to https
and allow the rest to move rather than just disabling it for the site
entirely.  At least that seems to be what the documentation says.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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