Fix broken link in README #381
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Both http and https immediately resolve for me, but it appears that the www is now needed. |
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@shorowit @nelsonauner Thanks for bringing this up. I can confirm that as of last week it wasn't working as you described. Glad to see it's up again. |
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@nmerket You closed this pull request, but the current If per @shorowit 's suggestion you'd rather have |
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Oh I see. Yeah, let's change that to www.hpxmlonline.com. Thanks again. |
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ok! @nmerket I took your and scotts comment to mean that you preferred to fix issue this issue by specifying subdomain ( I really love y'alls work and would be happy to help draft a |
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@nmerket The link under About also needs to be updated: |
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Good catch Scott! LMK if anything else I should do (e.g. rebase into a single commit before merge) |
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You're good. I'll take it from here. Thank for pointing this out. |
First, thanks for supporting these fantastic tools!
When perusing documentation I noticed a broken link in the README.
http://hpxmlonline.comis broken because the server is set to reject non-HTTPS requests instead of redirecting them.So, a user clicking this link in the readme will, for most browsers, wait 30 seconds and then receive a time out error.
The best way to fix this is to add logic to your webserver to redirect non-secure requests to HTTPS, but changing the links is also useful.
Note that I have not changed any of the non-secure links in the XML namespace (e.g.
<HPXML xmlns="https://hpxmlonline.com/2019/10" schemaVersion="3.1">because these uses are just namespaces, not actual resolveable URLs, and are sensitive to the protocol (e.g.httpvshttps)https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30707609/xml-namespace-uri-with-https