The page can not be reached due to it not being secured at nih.gov
Categories
(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect, P1)
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(Not tracked)
People
(Reporter: rbucata, Unassigned)
References
(Depends on 1 open bug, )
Details
(Keywords: webcompat:needs-diagnosis)
User Story
platform:android impact:site-broken configuration:general affects:all diagnosis-team: Networking
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Environment:
Operating system: Android 12
Firefox version: Firefox Nightly 122.0a1 (2015989607-🦎122.0a1-20231203092644🦎)
Preconditions:
Clean profile
Steps to reproduce:
- Navigate to : http://nih.gov/
- Observe the result.
Expected Behavior:
The page loads
Actual Behavior:
An error message is thrown
Notes:
- Reproducible regardless of the status of ETP
- Reproducible on the latest build of Firefox Nightly and Release
- Works as expected using Chrome
- Screenshot attached
- Issue found during WebCompat team [Top100] websites testing
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Comment 1•8 months ago
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Comment 2•5 months ago
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Verified this issue and still reproduces on Firefox 123 and 125.
Tested with:
Browser / Version: Firefox Release 123.0 (2016003223-🦎123.0-20240212203859🦎)/ Firefox Nightly 125.0a1 (2016005159-🦎125.0a1-20240222103314🦎)/ Firefox Beta 123.0b9 (2016002567-🦎123.0-20240209102425🦎)/ Chrome Mobile Version 121.0.6167.180/
Operating System: Google Pixel 3 (Android 12) -1080 x 2160 pixels, 18:9 ratio (~443 ppi density)
Operating System: Oppo Find X5 (Android 13) - 1080 x 2400 pixels, 20:9 ratio (~402 ppi density)
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Updated•5 months ago
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Updated•5 months ago
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Comment 3•5 months ago
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It seems to be a redirect problem when trying to access "nih.gov" or "http://nih.gov". On Chrome when accessing "nih.gov" it redirects to "https://www.nih.gov".
Note: Accessing https://www.nih.gov directly, loads the page as expected
Environment:
Operating system: OnePlus 6 A6000 (Android 11)
Browsers: Firefox Nightly 125.0a1-20240312214346 / Firefox Release 123.0.1-20240304104836 / Chrome 122.0.6261.64
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Updated•3 months ago
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Updated•1 month ago
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This reproduces in Firefox on Desktop as well; it's not Android-specific. I can reproduce it in Firefox 127.0.2 (64-bit) on Ubuntu 22.04, for example.
However, it doesn't reproduce in Nightly anymore, due to our "https-first" project (which makes us jump directly to loading https://www.nih.gov/ using https even if http was entered).
I don't know for sure but I suspect that's how this managed to work in Chrome, too; it looks like they have a similar feature, announced last year in https://blog.chromium.org/2023/08/towards-https-by-default.html
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Comment 5•1 month ago
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Looks like the Nightly pref-flip that made this start working was in bug 1719271, which landed on 6/23 (though it's using an IS_NIGHTLY_BUILD check for now; this isn't riding the trains yet).
I'm not sure if there's a bug for preffing this on for release, so I'll just mark it as depending on the metabug with alias https-first-mode as the underlying platform bug for now.
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