Last modified: 2014-11-18 18:07:31 UTC
etherpad.wikimedia.org fails to work on https. The page loads correctly, but the channel appears empty, and after a few seconds you get a disconnection notice. At first glance the problem seems to be that the comet request is sent to http: even if the page is on https: and so it is tripped by cross-domain restrictions. This is a big problem when using HTTPS Everywhere because it force-redirects everything under *.wikimedia.org to https.
RT #2751
If there isnt a fix soon, we should add etherpad to the HTTPS Everywhere exclusion pattern https://gitweb.torproject.org/https-everywhere.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/src/chrome/content/rules/Wikipedia.xml
This report is about https://etherpad.wikimedia.org . Most people seem to use EtherPad Lite at etherpad.wmflabs.org instead (see bug 34953), where https:// does not even resolve. That's covered in bug 43404.
https://epl.wikimedia.org/p/test%20https
Fixed up by migrating the service to EtherPad Lite.