502 bad gateway

I could kiss you for your post. I haven't been able to get to the site on mobile for a few weeks now and was finally able to get in on a desktop to access this. Worked for me like a charm.

[QUOTE=Ayasaki;7381328]I had no issues using Firefox on my Windows PC, but after a discussion with a local, I went through some steps to trigger this problem for myself in Chrome (on Windows and Android). Ultimately, came to the conclusion a VPN worked for Chrome sometimes. However, I revisited one of the ideas I had searched earlier and there is a much simpler way of dealing with it on both Windows and Android Chrome (can't and won't test on IOS).

[URL]https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/deprecating-powerful-features-on-insecure-origins/[/URL]

Basically use this flag.

chrome://flags/#unsafely-treat-insecure-origin-as-secure

Relaunch browser after changing this and then directly enter [URL]http://www.usasexguide.nl[/URL] . Without doing both of these steps, at least on my device, Chrome will add the http [B]s[/B] part and even when you remove the 's', it will continue to re-add it again and again. Likely the reason my past attempts failed at making it work earlier.

And while I have no particular reason to check all browsers, I do have Edge so checked it there since it is also Chromium behind the scenes and the same process works (just use edge://flags/ instead).[/QUOTE].

The lack of SSL / HTTPS is suspicious. I'm not a security expert but the lack of encryption means the whole site could be spoofed or cloned or the traffic could be exploited by a man in the middle attack.

I'm not worried about my personal stakes but this community is vulnerable. We are going to wake up one day and it's just going to be gone.

Then, what will we do?

[QUOTE=SuroAwei;7387364]Seems to be a pretty big deal to lose a lot of traffic to this issue, it took a while to figure out the workaround on my own as there doesn't seem to be any other communication channels for this site. I wonder who maintains the site and what the scope would be to fix the issue.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Absence;7388491]The lack of SSL / HTTPS is suspicious. I'm not a security expert but the lack of encryption means the whole site could be spoofed or cloned or the traffic could be exploited by a man in the middle attack.

I'm not worried about my personal stakes but this community is vulnerable. We are going to wake up one day and it's just going to be gone.

Then, what will we do?[/QUOTE]I belive you are correct. There is no easy way to assure access and most browsers are forcing HTTPS use even if HTTP is entered. The vast majority of users don't have the ability to find work arounds and eventually even those workarounds will quit working. Postings on boards have really dropped off and just about every contact I had has vanished or when reached through another method can't view the site. Everything went HTTPS long ago and it's not difficult but seems to be lost here.

[QUOTE=DaveSalem;7382889]I have gotten the above error on my Android SAFARI browser for months and gave up trying because I generally have access to a PC with Mozilla Firefox, which has always worked.

I emailed [B]admin2[/B] that I could not connect and they responded "what error", and failed to respond to the BAD GATEWAY response.[/QUOTE]They've deleted posts after this one, so they've certainly been made aware. Lack of desire I guess, must not be affecting the bottom line.

[QUOTE=FlightTime;7390621]They've deleted posts after this one, so they've certainly been made aware. Lack of desire I guess, must not be affecting the bottom line.[/QUOTE]Oh, it WILL affect the bottom line. All the BS ads on this site. Traffic is WAY WAY WAY down, active logins are available and it is no where near what it was. Advertisers will not continue to pay like they have for a fraction of the viewers. Frankly, the fact they have not fixed it is very concerning. I have not been on ANY website in many years where HTTPS was not available. Questions motives, questions the validity of the website, questions if outside forces have taken over, especially when there this is NOT ANY OBVIOUS announcement to be found on the site. There should be some big bold link everywhere that takes you to an explanation and the current status, but there is not. Again, raising some big red flags.

I know they could give a shit care less, but I will not be returning until it is back to normal and I am sure I am not the only one.

BB out.

[QUOTE=BadBird;7391391]Oh, it WILL affect the bottom line. All the BS ads on this site. Traffic is WAY WAY WAY down, active logins are available and it is no where near what it was. Advertisers will not continue to pay like they have for a fraction of the viewers. Frankly, the fact they have not fixed it is very concerning. I have not been on ANY website in many years where HTTPS was not available. Questions motives, questions the validity of the website, questions if outside forces have taken over, especially when there this is NOT ANY OBVIOUS announcement to be found on the site. There should be some big bold link everywhere that takes you to an explanation and the current status, but there is not. Again, raising some big red flags.

I know they could give a shit care less, but I will not be returning until it is back to normal and I am sure I am not the only one.

BB out.[/QUOTE]If economics is a motivator, it'd be fixed. That's all I'm saying. The Vbulletin version is massively out of date & support. It went out of support almost 14 years ago. Its going to be plagued by age related issues in both stability and security.

[QUOTE=Cartog;7379806]I access this site mostly via my shitty Windows PC with the Edge browser, but on occasion I would like access it via my iPhone with the Safari browser. To access the site via Windows Edge, I need to use the HTTP not secure connection. I don't understand why that is, but I have lived with it. To keep Edge from automatically doing a redirect to HTTPS, I did recently need to turn off this Edge browser security setting: "Automatically switch to more secure connections with Automatic HTTPS". For security, I would prefer not to do this so If someone knows of a better solution let me know.

As for my iPhone safari browser, it looks like one of Apple's recent updates started triggering the 502 Bad Gateway issue. It now appears to me that Safari is redirecting all HTTP connections to HTTPs. Anyone know of a setting to turn this feature off on Safari?

Just curious also, does anyone access this site via an HTTPS connection and with what browser? Thanks.[/QUOTE]Can't access the forum via HTTPS, even though the site seems to have a configured certificate. Seems like this all cropped up after the DDOS attacks as reported earlier here.

Hopefully, this gets resolved.

[QUOTE=OcAmper;7392328]Can't access the forum via HTTPS, even though the site seems to have a configured certificate. Seems like this all cropped up after the DDOS attacks as reported earlier here.

Hopefully, this gets resolved.[/QUOTE]It's been almost a month now (started around 8/20) at least that's when this post was first reported. I guess we better get used to this.

[QUOTE=WhiteSun777;7395645]It's been almost a month now (started around 8/20) at least that's when this post was first reported. I guess we better get used to this.[/QUOTE]Yeah, I had to use Chrome to even access the site on my phone! Notice a tremendous decline in activity and Forum Members on line! Hurts our ability to share information! I'm sure Admin can solve this problem?

Folks. Use Firefox. Type in http: at the start and you are fine without issue.

I'm making a call out to all the geeks and nerds. The platform that this community is built on needs a technology refresh.

[QUOTE=FlightTime;7391941]If economics is a motivator, it'd be fixed. That's all I'm saying. The Vbulletin version is massively out of date & support. It went out of support almost 14 years ago. Its going to be plagued by age related issues in both stability and security.[/QUOTE]

This is an ongoing, mounting issue, and not the type of mounting I enjoy.

For the past couple of years, you can't load the site on Google Chrome and receive the 502 Bad Gateway. Angie message instead! It was never repaired by admin. So I was using Microsoft Edge. Now it stopped loading on Edge. Same 502 Angie message. I have a virus packaged browser that doesn't work either. Firefox is the only remaining browser that works, but soon that will probably go down as well!

[QUOTE=Absence;7397468]I'm making a call out to all the geeks and nerds. The platform that this community is built on needs a technology refresh.[/QUOTE]

Good news is you no longer get the bad gateway error when using HTTPS. Yay!

Bad news is the formatting are all jacked up when you're using HTTPS (basically I had to revert back to http) to view the site properly.

We're getting there. Making progress.

[QUOTE=WhiteSun777;7431301]Good news is you no longer get the bad gateway error when using HTTPS. Yay!

Bad news is the formatting are all jacked up when you're using HTTPS (basically I had to revert back to http) to view the site properly.

We're getting there. Making progress.[/QUOTE]Yea, worked fine for about a week then some browser updates and the site is all jacked up. Google keeps defaulting to secure so I'm using firefox and even that tries a few time to revert to secure. PITA! I think the days of unsecure sites are numbered.

[QUOTE=Absence;7397468]I'm making a call out to all the geeks and nerds. The platform that this community is built on needs a technology refresh.[/QUOTE]I'm technical and didn't expect https would mess up formatting. I know http did fix other issues from a month ago or so with the 502 bad gateway message. The fix could be have the traffic hit an AWS load balancer, which can take https traffic but it communicates back and forth between the server and load balancer just with http. So the web server doesn't have to deal with https at all, which apparently it struggles with. And yes the site has some tech debt and could use a refresh, but it's not a trivial undertaking at all.