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19 hours ago, Michael Emrys said:

No telling what you will find when you start cleaning out a closet.

:lol:

Michael

Tell me about it!  Turns out the CMFI Demos were never hosted on our server, but instead always hosted on other game sites.  We used to do that in the old days before bandwidth became affordable.  I could download them from one of those sites, however it's bad practice because we can't vouch they are 100% the same as what we uploaded to them.  Best to dig around and find them and upload directly from our archives.  Should be up very soon.

10 hours ago, z1812 said:

Just as information the New Site does not keep me logged as I asked it too. I have to log in every time I visit the site. I wonder if others are having this happen?

For sure it works for my personal customer account in several browsers.  You should check your security settings regarding cookies.  If your browser is blocking them in any way things like your login information, items you put in your cart in prior sessions, etc. won't be available to you.

Steve

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11 hours ago, z1812 said:

Just as information the New Site does not keep me logged as I asked it too. I have to log in every time I visit the site. I wonder if others are having this happen?

No, I am logged in even after leaving or refreshing the site... so far.

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10 hours ago, PIATpunk said:

I have to log in each time I visit the site and I haven't turned cookies off or any security weirdness.

Not sure if this popup has anything to do with it though:  (chrome 64 bit win)

 

Yeah, that looks to be the reason.  It appears to me that Chrome is objecting to putting stuff into the cookie.  I don't know why that would be the case as I don't understand the low level stuff going on with browsers.

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So this error means that the page is trying to load scripts via http instead of https. It is unlikely to be the reason that the login is not remembered but should be fixed. Google is probably already down grading such pages in their search algorithm.

A look at the console reveals the likely problem - the favicon:

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Mixed Content: The page at 'https://www.battlefront.com/' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure favicon 'http://www.battlefront.com/index.php?p=404'. This request has been blocked; the content must be served over HTTPS.

 

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Thanks!  That's odd!  The icon in question is from our old site, but the pages in question are all generated by the current store.  I can't find any reference too this icon in the new store at all.  I'm wondering if it is a browser cache problem?

Update... the icon is the little one that appears in your browser for things like bookmarks, history, etc.  It seems the browser is remembering the old location and trying to load it.  I'm not sure how to have the browser purge it.  Checking into that now.

Steve

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Yep that's the icon. I could not find any reference in the home page html either. I cleared my Chrome cache just to be sure and it changed nothing. I vaguely remember setting that icon for a site of mine somewhere other than in the html for the site (i.e. on some special file in the root so the icon would be the default for the site). It is one of those things that you set and forget. Which is fine until you need to remember :)

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Interestingly FF does not show a favicon in the tab either. Anyway I did a quick search and found this on  how to get the icon to show on all devices using html:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18301745/how-to-set-up-a-favicon

You might find it helpful if there not not some setting in your control panel already that will fix it.

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My guess is that because we don't have the icon on our site anywhere that the browser is defaulting to cached version.  And that, for some reason, is causing problems for some people on some browsers/devices. If I had to guess it's a problem with the browser's evaluation that the cached icon isn't matching the site and therefore is a potential security problem.

I put the icon on our site in a couple of different spots.  Let's see if that fixes the problem before I go hacking lines into PHP scripts 🙂

Steve

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When I inspect the site with chrome the console  says:

"Mixed Content: The page at 'https://battlefront.com/' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure favicon 'http://www.battlefront.com/index.php?p=404'. This request has been blocked; the content must be served over HTTPS."

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Perhaps the redirect to the 'unsafe' http url is on webserver level? I vaguely remember something about having to edit apache vhost config files with regards to favicons.

Anyway that's what I think chrome is saying also: something requested a favicon, but that request resolved into 'http://www.battlefront.com/index.php?p=404' which is not https and therefore unsafe. I don't think it has to do with local browser cache, but not 100% sure.

EDIT: It is/was browser cache in the mix. I was somehow able to clean up the cache it seems (clearing all data since beginning and clicking around in the inspecter), and now the store page loads without unsafe warnings (and without any favicon requests or mentions).

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34 minutes ago, Battlefront.com said:

I put the icon on our site in a couple of different spots.  Let's see if that fixes the problem before I go hacking lines into PHP scripts 🙂

Steve

I was able to fix the warning locally, but there is no favicon to be seen. I think it's normal place is in the website root, preferably called 'favicon.ico'.

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54 minutes ago, IanL said:

Interestingly FF does not show a favicon in the tab either. Anyway I did a quick search and found this on  how to get the icon to show on all devices using html:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18301745/how-to-set-up-a-favicon

You might find it helpful if there not not some setting in your control panel already that will fix it.

Well that shows how good (not) my memory is. My http://www.lesliesoftware.com/ is not using anything special it has html much like (only one line) the source I sighted. Mind you I have not switched to https - gotta do that :)

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I wanted to download the demo for Fortress Italy. Unfortunately the page from where I was supposed to get the demo looked like the picture below. So I wonder if someone has forgotten to upload the demo to the new website or if Battlefront maybe is waiting for the new DLC to be released? If Battlefront is waiting for the new DLC, how come I could download the demo for Red Thunder which also gets a new DLC?

No Demo.jpg

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3 hours ago, Lethaface said:

I was able to fix the warning locally, but there is no favicon to be seen. I think it's normal place is in the website root, preferably called 'favicon.ico'.

With some the favicon is in the template images folder.

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