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HTTPS Everywhere breaks links from PubMed to BiomedCentral
Using Firefox with HTTPS Everywhere add-on, start here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23116330 With HTTPS Everywhere enabled, click the link in the top-right corner, "Read Free Full Text at BioMedCentral" This will lead to http://www.biomedcentral.com:443/1756-0500/5/610/abstract and produce this error: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <html><head> <title>400 Bad Request</title> </head><body> <h1>Bad Request</h1> <p>Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.<br /> Reason: You're speaking plain HTTP to an SSL-enabled server port.<br /> Instead use the HTTPS scheme to access this URL, please.<br /> <blockquote>Hint: <a href="https://127.0.0.1/"><b>https://127.0.0.1/</b></a></blockquote></p> <hr> <address>Apache/2.2.16 (Debian) Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 443</address> </body></html> Manually replacing "http" with "https" produces the correct page. With the "BioMed-Central" rule in HTTPS Everywhere disabled, the link works as expected (albeit without switching to https). I am using HTTPS-E 3.0.4 on Firefox 17.0 (Fedora 17)
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