[Newsbot]

Title: ON Catholic School Chair flips on sex-ed after learning of son's abuse
Category: Provincial Politics
Posted By: BeaverFever
Date: 2016-06-16 12:12:54
Canadian

[andyt]

The link doesn't seem to work, so here's CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/t ... -1.3638605

Hallelujah.

[BeaverFever]

What's with all the news links not working lately?

[andyt]

Caleb said the problem is with addresses that start with https.

[CDN_PATRIOT]

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

What's with all the news links not working lately?

DAMN YOU NEWSBOT!!! YOU OVERPAID TIN CAN YOU!!!!



-J

(link didn't work for me either, BTW)

[DrCaleb]

andyt andyt:

Caleb said the problem is with addresses that start with https.

When newsbot reads the URL, it was designed with addresses in the form "http://www..."

Almost every website switched to encrypted streams after Snowden - of the form "https://www..".

Newsbot doesn't like this. Notice what it did the the story URL:

http://https//www.thestar.com/yourtoronto/education/2016/06/16/sons-abuse-prompts-angela-kennedy-to-change-sex-ed-stance.html

It added the "http://" in front of the "https://" and removed the ":", because it thought it only received the "www..." part of the address.

Happens a lot.