Https-everywhere: politico.com ruleset broken

[andrew-fuchs]

Politico.com URLs are being rewritten incorrectly.

For example:

http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/03/national-obesity-tracking-experiemnt-000335

Is rewritten to:

https://secure.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/03/national-obesity-tracking-experiemnt-000335

[liquidsunshine]

I can confirm that this happens for me as well. Chrome 57.0.2987.98 (64-bit) on Ubuntu 16.04.2.

To elaborate, the redirect results in a 404, and this seems to happen consistently with Politico links I have clicked on. Disabling the "Politico.com (partial)" rule fixes the issue.

[Diagoras]

I can also confirm this, both with Chrome 56.0.2924.87 (64-bit) on El Capitan 10.11.4 and and with Firefox Mobile on Android.

To provide another example, this:

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/why-courts-shouldnt-try-to-read-trumps-mind-214921

is rewritten to:

https://secure.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/why-courts-shouldnt-try-to-read-trumps-mind-214921

[diego898]

I can also confirm - Is there a workaround besides right-clicking and opening incognito?

[liquidsunshine]

@diego898 - You can disable the Politico rule individually. That should work around the issue. However, until/unless it can be properly fixed, I think the rule should be removed from HTTPS Everywhere.

[deutrino]

This is happening for me on Chromium 56.0.2924.76 and Firefox 52.0.1 on Linux.

For people who are unfamiliar, a ruleset can be disabled by clicking the HTTPS Everywhere icon when on the site and then unchecking the "Politico (partial)" checkbox.

[diego898]

@gordon-morehouse thank you for the clear instructions!

[diego898]

Do I have to manually re-enable this rule if/when the issue is fixed?

[cschanaj]

Related: #9361

[J0WI]

The rule has been disabled in #9528

[deutrino]

It might be good to address pull request #9518 before forgetting about this, because I fixed every problem that I was able to observe.