Ask PG: Comments are not working?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5359416

by Osiris • 13 years ago

199 39 13 years ago

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I'm getting a 404 when trying to open the comments links on all the articles on the front page.

tikhonj• 13 years ago

For me, they seem to work with https but not http.

cdcarter• 13 years ago

I can confirm that https solves it.

vyrotek• 13 years ago

Same here. Thanks for making this comment! I was able to spot it from viewing all the HN comments. But I couldn't view the comments for this submission by clicking it. :)

atomon• 13 years ago

Same for me, but HTTPS seems to be much slower to load for some reason

Osiris• 13 years ago

It looks like /reply works but /item doesn't. I can't see other comments but I can make one myself.

dylangs1030• 13 years ago

This also applies to attempting to login for me. When logging in, I am redirected to the front page instead of being prompted to re-enter credentials and a "bad login" alert.

This is also fixed with https

thejosh• 13 years ago

seems to be working again now normally.

Kluny• 13 years ago

... are you the same Josh Who provides high quality torrents of a particular thing?

zbowling• 13 years ago

It's fixed.

brudgers• 13 years ago

8:43pm CDT - They are working now without HTTPS.

mrjaeger• 13 years ago

And now we wait for the post-mortem. I imagine it would have to do with some apache/nginx setting?

fnordfnordfnord3• 13 years ago

I'm going to make a wild guess that it's a bad 74LS00 NAND gate.

pbhjpbhj• 13 years ago

PG runs HN on his calculator? Makes sense.

g2e• 13 years ago

This comment.

Proof by counter-example.

monochromatic2• 13 years ago

pg typed something into the repl on the live server without testing it again.

Vieira• 13 years ago

Pffft, smoothest http->https transition ever.

codegeek2• 13 years ago

http is not working for me either even for login. I just switched to https.

niggler2• 13 years ago

Not only do comments fail to work, you can't even login under http. https works fine though

newman314• 13 years ago

Why no HSTS?

cabbeer• 13 years ago

Is anyone else having styling issues?

stock_toaster• 13 years ago

yeah. I am getting 'insecure content' warnings, and styling is not loading properly.

niggler2• 13 years ago

yeah just happened a minute ago

fnordfnordfnord3• 13 years ago

Yes, font changed, links are now blue underlined. Happened about two minutes ago.

bradgessler• 13 years ago

Oh no! A font tag must be misplaced!

Remember those days? CSS is for the birds.

codegeek2• 13 years ago

me too. I have to confirm with my browser about secure content before getting the stylesheet to work

akjetma• 13 years ago

hn has always had styling issues for me. I've always just attributed them to something mysterious in the thick jungle of my current linux install... It is particularly nasty right now though.

pizzeys• 13 years ago

It's not all that mysterious - their CSS is just pretty bad for Linux users. For example, they specify Verdana with no fallbacks (not even sans-serif) so we get a nice unreadable (at their font size) serif font. :(

kjhughes• 13 years ago

Looks like a CSS link,

  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://ycombinator.com/news.css">

is using http rather than https from an https page.

Chrome (25.0.1364.152 m) refuses[1] to retrieve; FF 19.0.2 does retrieve; IE 8 warns of insecure content.

[1] Chrome can be told to load anyway at the end of its URL entry box.

OGC• 13 years ago

Good to know i'm not the only person fucking things up like this.

jellyksong• 13 years ago

It's because HN is on https but the css file isn't. If you're on chrome you can click the shield icon to manually load it (not sure about other browsers).

zenocon• 13 years ago

wow, the new css is awesome!

shn• 13 years ago

This is a 24/7 production issue need to be dealt right away. Anyone knows PG's beeper? :)

monochromatic2• 13 years ago

> Comments are not working?

I'm... Ron Burgundy?

kogir• 13 years ago

This was due to HN thinking requests were coming over SSL when they weren't. When it set the secure flag, your session wasn't sent over HTTP.

emeraldd• 13 years ago

Is anyone else seeing a mixed mode warning? I'm seeing a large number of warnings about of them on http://ycombinator.com/images/grayarrow.gif

Ask PG: Comments are not working?

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