just popped SOL open today and this happened, i can't show story details while looking in story index, and all the chapters i had watched already are no longer indicated as such. Is there a way to fix this or is this not just an issue on my end?
just popped SOL open today and this happened, i can't show story details while looking in story index, and all the chapters i had watched already are no longer indicated as such. Is there a way to fix this or is this not just an issue on my end?
I noticed the issue with the details earlier, but then it seemed to start working again after I logged out and logged in. May have just been a coincidence.
It relates to the on going HTTP/HTTPS issues.
If your link to the site is to the HTTPS address, the story details are viewable if using HTTP. If you click on the Home link from a story, it will take you to HTTP and they will be viewable. Clicking on any other home links will take you to HTTPS (although once you are on HTTP, all of those home links take you to HTTP). But all of your visited links & history will be gone, as they are for addresses starting with HTTPS, not HTTP.
eg Main Page Home address https://storiesonline.net/home.php
An Authors page Home link address https://storiesonline.net/a/Lazlo_Zalezac
A Home link address from a story http://storiesonline.net/home.php
HTTP Main Page Home address http://storiesonline.net/home.php
An Authors page Home link address http://storiesonline.net/a/Lazlo_Zalezac
A Home link address from a story http://storiesonline.net/home.php
Could having a link to a non-secure address from a secure address be involved in the present HTTPS issues?
And I just noticed that from the HTTPS addresses, clicking on a story goes to HTTP.
eg Authors page address https://storiesonline.net/a/Lazlo_Zalezac
Story address https://storiesonline.net/s/46579/chandlers-ride
Chapter address http://storiesonline.net/s/46579:39003/chandlers-ride-chapter-1
Rather than qualifying the http://storiesonline.net or https://storiesonline.net, the urls could all be relative so it always works on both.
If the domain differs, the url can omit the scheme and start with // e.g. //domain/path/to/whatever to stay on http or https so there are no mixed content problems.
There are a mixture of them. The vast majority are relative, with a few hard http and https on the Author page. Story links from there are relative (so https).
However on the story index and chapter pages, while the links are relative there is a base href tag in the head which is http, so everything from there goes that way.
I assume Lazeez added that to try and mitigate the recent problems.