# Posting problem. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 9, 2017, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-problem/803969 "2017-12-09T00:21:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2017, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-problem/803969/21 "2017-12-11T13:55:29Z")
And I just found a smoking gun. When pasting a URL from Firefox to IE so that I could reply to a message, I closed a pop-up box withtout paying attention to it, and the reply was broken in IE, too. So I refreshed the page to see the pop-up box again, and it said that only secure content was being shown. When I clicked on the “show unsecure content” button instead of just clicking to close it, the reply box is working again. So the problem is that the reply to message material is unsecured (an I’m assuming the viewing of user details, and viewing of hidden messages problems I’ve noted) while other content on the page is secured. It is officially a borking caused by the https “upgrade.” ---
**Author:** ![Ed\_Zotti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/fbc32d/32.png) [@Ed\_Zotti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ed_Zotti)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2017, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-problem/803969/22 "2017-12-11T17:05:11Z")
Thanks for reporting this. I’ll have the techs look into it. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2017, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-problem/803969/23 "2017-12-12T05:22:19Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Also, all editing options and smilies are showing as only images, not as buttons with actions attached to them. As of right now, same here. Also, the multiquote buttons are not working (don’t change to orange when I click them), but they did just a few minutes ago. Weird. Old theme, Firefox 57.0.2, desktop, Windows 10 (updated a day or two ago). ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2017, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-problem/803969/24 "2017-12-13T01:39:12Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > This is probably a case of me needing to restart my OS, which I will do later today, but for the last ~24 hours, I have not been able to use any of the automatic editing features when I post. For example, I can’t select text and click “i” for italics-- I have to manually enter the BB code tags. When I try to click any of the icons, nothing happens. It’s happening again. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2017, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-problem/803969/25 "2017-12-13T01:40:54Z")
Test from Firefox ---
**Author:** ![Ed\_Zotti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/fbc32d/32.png) [@Ed\_Zotti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ed_Zotti)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2017, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-problem/803969/26 "2017-12-13T02:38:04Z")
John our tech guy continues to tinker with HTTP redirects and other inscrutabilia. Once he gets things stabilized we’ll see what problems remain. We appreciate your patience. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2017, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-problem/803969/27 "2017-12-13T05:42:40Z")
> [@Ed\_Zotti](#): > > John our tech guy continues to tinker with HTTP redirects and other inscrutabilia. Once he gets things stabilized we’ll see what problems remain. We appreciate your patience. Thanks. Just to be clear, I wasn’t really complaining. It’s not a huge deal to work-around it, but I figure someone should know. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2017, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-problem/803969/28 "2017-12-13T05:48:02Z")
Everything seems to be working okay for me now. I use NoScript, and this time I unblocked some blocked addresses. Maybe that was part of my problem. ---
**Author:** ![Crazyhorse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazyhorse/32/31_2.png) [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2017, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-problem/803969/29 "2017-12-13T05:59:54Z")
I’m going to be looking for an inscrutabilia blocker ASAP. In the mean time you can get around most of these problems by removing the “s” in “https” at the beginning of the link to a thread. That doesn’t work at the main forum listing because it gets immediately redirected to the https site, but for example this thread loaded from: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=844215](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=844215) instead of: [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=844215](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=844215) allows editing, multi-quoting, smilies, etc. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2017, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-problem/803969/30 "2017-12-13T07:45:18Z")
> [@Crazyhorse](#): > > I’m going to be looking for an inscrutabilia blocker ASAP. > > In the mean time you can get around most of these problems by removing the “s” in “https” at the beginning of the link to a thread. > > That doesn’t work at the main forum listing because it gets immediately redirected to the https site, but for example this thread loaded from: > > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=844215](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=844215) > > instead of: > > [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=844215](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=844215) > > allows editing, multi-quoting, smilies, etc. No matter what I’ve done, I’ve never gotten redirected to the HTTPS site. In fact, if I intentionally load the HTTPS site manually, and then make any posts, I get redirected back to the HTTP site. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2017, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-problem/803969/31 "2017-12-13T11:35:55Z")
As of this morning, all problems seem to have cleared up in Firefox for Windows. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2017, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-problem/803969/32 "2017-12-13T16:16:07Z")
nm. As soon as I posted about the problem, it went away. All looks good now. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-problem/803969/33 "2017-12-15T17:35:27Z")
I posted this in the wrong thread earlier: > [@](#): > > For some reason, none of the functions like emoticons, fonts, link, quotes, etc. are working for me. Using a PC and Chrome. What gives? Okay, this is weird: I can use the buttons on _this_ **linked** thread, but not on the original thread or on any answers I post. So the quoted text above still applies. The board is broken for me. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-problem/803969/34 "2017-12-15T18:17:03Z")
There are some problems with HTTPS. I would guess you are reaching the threads that work through HTTP and the ones that don’t work with HTTPS. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-problem/803969/35 "2017-12-15T18:53:29Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > And I just found a smoking gun. . . I found exactly the same thing: the formatting buttons work in IE only when I tell it to show insecure content. Chrome and Firefox don’t ask about showing insecure content, and the buttons don’t work at all there. Whatever script is behind those buttons needs to be updated to make them secure. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-problem/803969/36 "2017-12-15T21:09:45Z")
None of the buttons (bold, italics, hyperlink etc) work for me anymore. On any browser. (On edit, it works in safari) ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-problem/803969/37 "2017-12-15T23:43:15Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > None of the buttons (bold, italics, hyperlink etc) work for me anymore. On any browser. (On edit, it works in safari) Funny, I noticed that, too. They work when editing, but not when originally composing. The mystery deepens! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-problem/803969/38 "2017-12-16T00:07:34Z")
It’s not a mystery - they work over HTTP, they don’t work over HTTPS. It all depends how you got to the page. ---
**Author:** ![jdunlevy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8491ac/32.png) [@jdunlevy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jdunlevy)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-problem/803969/39 "2017-12-16T00:18:36Z")
By changing where the board is looking for some scripts used in the editor, I’ve got formatting buttons fixed in the posting editor over HTTPS—at least for myself. Hoping that has just fixed most of the outstanding problems. ---
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-problem/803969/40 "2017-12-16T01:32:18Z")
I’m actually having the same problem, as of now. Many of the buttons don’t work, or are replaced by text instead of the icon. The formatting buttons within posting don’t work either. If I can manually go to the HTTP link, then they seem to work, but i have to do it each page. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-problem/803969.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-problem/803969.md?page=3)