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Story: Computer Scientists Urge Court to Block Copyright Claims in Oracle v. Google API FightTotal Replies: 7
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Ridcully

Jun 03, 2013
12:10 AM EDT
http://www.eff.org/press/releases/computer-scientists-urge-c...

This should help until Scott gets to it.

Edit.......and for some reason, the link above has not "transformed itself into a hot link".....however if you copy and paste, you'll get the site.

Thanks BernardSwiss.......I just went into the link and removed the "s" with instant results......Ta muchly, that is a piece of internet knowledge I had never heard of. So please add some more......what and why the "s" ?
BernardSwiss

Jun 03, 2013
1:39 AM EDT
That's probably because it's an https:// link.

Plain http:// usually works fine.
Ridcully

Jun 03, 2013
3:06 AM EDT
Thanks BernardSwiss.....please see my response in my first post above. I am most grateful for the info. It's a bit of internet knowledge I have never come across.
CFWhitman

Jun 03, 2013
9:55 AM EDT
The 's' in 'https://' stands for 'secure' (or something like that). Typically regular web pages are not encrypted, but 'https://' pages are encrypted.
BernardSwiss

Jun 03, 2013
6:47 PM EDT
You'll notice that the EFF still redirects the http address to an https one (as a matter of principle &/or advocacy)

It varies from site to site.

On the referrer end (LXer) it probably depends more on what filters are in the web-page/web-form referring code -- the code on LXer just doesn't recognize the https as a URL indicator.
BernardSwiss

Jun 03, 2013
7:16 PM EDT
@Ridicully:

PS: Did you post the link in the "Author" field?
Fettoosh

Jun 03, 2013
7:19 PM EDT
Quoting:The code on LXer just doesn't recognize the https as a URL indicator.


But one can get around this issue by using the A (Anchor) form which is honoured by the LXer preprocessor like this https:... link .

Ridcully

Jun 03, 2013
9:37 PM EDT
@BernardSwiss.......BLESS YOU ! I just took a look and indeed that happened when I previously edited the wretched thing to try to get rid of the "s" in https.

I think you will find the entire thing is now working as it should. And I have learnt a lot as well. Never too old to learn new tricks.

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