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Ask PG: Comments are not working?

199 points by Osiris 14y ago

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

monochromatic 14y ago
> Comments are not working? I'm... Ron Burgundy?
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tikhonj 14y ago
For me, they seem to work with https but not http.
- cdcarter 14y ago
  I can confirm that https solves it.
- vyrotek 14y 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 14y ago
  Same for me, but HTTPS seems to be much slower to load for some reason
Osiris 14y ago
It looks like /reply works but /item doesn't. I can't see other comments but I can make one myself.
dylangs1030 14y 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 14y ago
seems to be working again now normally.
- Kluny 14y ago
  ... are you the same Josh Who provides high quality torrents of a particular thing?
zbowling 14y ago
It's fixed.
brudgers 14y ago
8:43pm CDT - They are working now without HTTPS.
mrjaeger 14y ago
And now we wait for the post-mortem. I imagine it would have to do with some apache/nginx setting?
- fnordfnordfnord 14y ago
  I'm going to make a wild guess that it's a bad 74LS00 NAND gate.
  - pbhjpbhj 14y ago
    PG runs HN on his calculator? Makes sense.
    - fnordfnordfnord 14y ago
      Naw, this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5229488 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5229488 A good calculator (like an HP41) is hard to come by.
g2e 14y ago
This comment. Proof by counter-example.
monochromatic 14y ago
pg typed something into the repl on the live server without testing it again.
- Vieira 14y ago
  Pffft, smoothest http->https transition ever.
codegeek 14y ago
http is not working for me either even for login. I just switched to https.
niggler 14y ago
Not only do comments fail to work, you can't even login under http. https works fine though
newman314 14y ago
Why no HSTS?
cabbeer 14y ago
Is anyone else having styling issues?
- akjetma 14y 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 14y 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 14y 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 14y ago
    Good to know i'm not the only person fucking things up like this.
    - sneak 14y ago
      Protip: Specify urls as "//example.com/path/to/style.css" or such. They will default to whatever protocol (http/https) was used to fetch the parent page. It's also less typing (DRY!).
      - jonny_eh 14y ago
        Unless you're loading from a file (using file://)
zenocon 14y ago
wow, the new css is awesome!
shn 14y ago
This is a 24/7 production issue need to be dealt right away. Anyone knows PG's beeper? :)
kogir 14y 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.
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emeraldd 14y 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 http://ycombinator.com/images/grayarrow.gif

199 points by Osiris 14y ago

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

monochromatic 14y ago

> Comments are not working? I'm... Ron Burgundy?

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tikhonj 14y ago

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

cdcarter 14y ago
I can confirm that https solves it.
vyrotek 14y 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 14y ago
Same for me, but HTTPS seems to be much slower to load for some reason

Osiris 14y ago

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

dylangs1030 14y 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 14y ago

seems to be working again now normally.

Kluny 14y ago
... are you the same Josh Who provides high quality torrents of a particular thing?

zbowling 14y ago

It's fixed.

brudgers 14y ago

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

mrjaeger 14y ago

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

fnordfnordfnord 14y ago
I'm going to make a wild guess that it's a bad 74LS00 NAND gate.
- pbhjpbhj 14y ago
  PG runs HN on his calculator? Makes sense.
  - fnordfnordfnord 14y ago
    Naw, this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5229488 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5229488 A good calculator (like an HP41) is hard to come by.

g2e 14y ago

This comment. Proof by counter-example.

monochromatic 14y ago

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

Vieira 14y ago
Pffft, smoothest http->https transition ever.

codegeek 14y ago

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

niggler 14y ago

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

newman314 14y ago

Why no HSTS?

cabbeer 14y ago

Is anyone else having styling issues?

akjetma 14y 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 14y 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 14y 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 14y ago
  Good to know i'm not the only person fucking things up like this.
  - sneak 14y ago
    Protip: Specify urls as "//example.com/path/to/style.css" or such. They will default to whatever protocol (http/https) was used to fetch the parent page. It's also less typing (DRY!).
    - jonny_eh 14y ago
      Unless you're loading from a file (using file://)

zenocon 14y ago

wow, the new css is awesome!

shn 14y ago

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

kogir 14y 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.

deleted 14y ago

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emeraldd 14y 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 http://ycombinator.com/images/grayarrow.gif