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[laurietunnicliffe]

The new login check is a pain in the ####

[Witek]

I have the checkbox twice and then I have to change http to https manually to log in.

[chesskobra]

Until yesterday I had to check the box only once, but now I have to check it twice. It briefly happened on 2700chess.com also, but not happening any more on that site.

[hgm]

The site does not work properly when you log on as https, though. It is a http site.

[Mike Sherwin]

I use http://talkchess.com/ to get to talkchess. It is working better than it has been. If I get the I am not a robot checkbox screen I exit and try again. If I try several times and I can't get past then I try later.

Everytime that I click the I am not a robot checkbox I get in but not to the expected gui but rather I end up with an archaic text based ui that works but is not very pleasant to use. I'd say the error is that the I am not a robot page redirects to the wrong interface.

[hgm]

No, the content of the page is exactly the same. But the page refers to style (.css) files for defining the formatting of the various HTML elements on it. It is apparently the loading of these files that fails, and then the browser simply displays the page in the default format (i.e. simple text, no colored backgrounds or borders, etc.).

My theory for the failure to read the CSS files, or indeed the need to sometimes tick the checkbox multiple times, is that CloudFlare can use different paths to connect you to talkchess.com, and that each path requires separate confirmation. If you are unlucky, and after confirmation the page you requested is requested again through a different path, you again get the confirmation page instead. If the page is loaded through the same path as for which you confirmed, you gat the HTML, but if you are unlucky that the style files are fetched through a different path, you just don't get them. There apparently is no separate confirmation page for style files.

[lithander]

if you are unlucky that the style files are fetched through a different path, you just don't get them

Using the Incognito Mode of the browser seems to help for whatever reason.

[Marek Soszynski]

I have the checkbox twice and then I have to change http to https manually to log in.

Yes, I edited http to https in my bookmark and all is okay now.

[ernest]

The site does not work properly when you log on as https, though. It is a http site.

Hi hgm !
What do you mean ? How can I find an example of "not working properly" ?

[hgm]

You won't be able to see the diagrams:


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