Comics Kingdom comments issue?

[Dave Garrett]

Anyone else having problems accessing the comments on Comics Kingdom?
I'm running the latest version of Chrome, and a couple of days ago the
comments for every strip disappeared at the same time Chrome started
displaying an alert indicating "this page is trying to load scripts from
unauthenticated sources".

Perhaps some sort of back-end changes just implemented by Disqus that
Chrome doesn't like?

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Dave

[Joy Beeson]

Comments are also not working for Pale Moon. I click on "comments"
and the same page reloads.

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Joy Beeson
joy beeson at comcast dot net

[D.D.Degg]

It's showing how many comments,
but the comments are not loading for my Firefox.

D.D.Degg

[D Heine]

Disqus works find for me on Google Chrome when I post Kevin and Kell webcomic comments.

[bholb...@gmail.com]

I'm experiencing that issue on both Firefox and Safari.

[John W Kennedy]

OK for me on Safari 10.0.3.

--
John W. Kennedy
"The blind rulers of Logres
Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."
-- Charles Williams. "Taliessin through Logres: Prelude"

[ba...@dontspam.silent.com]

On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 19:55:34 -0600, Dave Garrett <da...@compassnet.com>
wrote:

OK for me on Firefox 51.0.1

[Dave Garrett]

In article <f6b47621-2a7a-4253...@googlegroups.com>,
ddde...@comcast.net says...

> It's showing how many comments,
> but the comments are not loading for my Firefox.

Yep, that's what I'm seeing. For example, when I hit the link to today's
Judge Parker from the main CK page, it goes to the following URL:

https://comicskingdom.com/judge-parker/2017-01-28

If I click on the number of comments to view them, it goes to a slightly
different URL:

https://comicskingdom.com/judge-parker/2017-01-28#disqus_thread

and scrolls the page to where the comments would normally appear, but
there's nothing there.

In addition to Chrome, I tested it with the latest release versions of
Firefox and IE11, and the same thing happens with all three browsers. I
did get a popup in IE warning me that only secure content was displayed,
which is why I was wondering if something changed on Disqus' end that
caused their content to be blocked.

--
Dave

[D Heine]

On Friday, January 27, 2017 at 7:55:40 PM UTC-6, Dave Garrett wrote:

I now can't load comments for comic strips on Comics Kingdom. - Lucky I can still post comments via Disqus on the Kevin and Kell website.

[bholb...@gmail.com]

Here's what's weird. You can post comments on Comics Kingdom-affiliated sites hosted by newspapers such as The Toronto Star: http://diversions.thestar.com/comics.html?feature_id=Fast_Track

...But not on Comics Kingdom itself.

[John W Kennedy]

On 1/29/17 11:25 AM, bholb...@gmail.com wrote:
> Here's what's weird. You can post comments on Comics Kingdom-affiliated sites hosted by newspapers such as The Toronto Star: http://diversions.thestar.com/comics.html?feature_id=Fast_Track
>
> ...But not on Comics Kingdom itself.

In Safari (all other browsers I know of have analogues):

Right-click on strip title.
Open Link in New Window

The comments will be there.

I have always done this to avoid having to load the Favorites page again
when I’m done with the comments and move on to the next strip.

[Mark Jackson]

On 1/29/2017 7:38 PM, John W Kennedy wrote:
> On 1/29/17 11:25 AM, bholb...@gmail.com wrote:
>> Here's what's weird. You can post comments on Comics
>> Kingdom-affiliated sites hosted by newspapers such as The Toronto
>> Star: http://diversions.thestar.com/comics.html?feature_id=Fast_Track
>>
>> ...But not on Comics Kingdom itself.
>
> In Safari (all other browsers I know of have analogues):
>
> Right-click on strip title.
> Open Link in New Window
>
> The comments will be there.

Huh. Opening the link in a new tab also works, at least in Firefox.

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Just because you don't see killer robots marching
down the street doesn't mean we shouldn't be concerned.
- Elon Musk

[Dave Garrett]

In article <ef7ha3...@mid.individual.net>,
mjac...@alumni.caltech.edu says...

>
> On 1/29/2017 7:38 PM, John W Kennedy wrote:
> > On 1/29/17 11:25 AM, bholb...@gmail.com wrote:
> >> Here's what's weird. You can post comments on Comics
> >> Kingdom-affiliated sites hosted by newspapers such as The Toronto
> >> Star: http://diversions.thestar.com/comics.html?feature_id=Fast_Track
> >>
> >> ...But not on Comics Kingdom itself.
> >
> > In Safari (all other browsers I know of have analogues):
> >
> > Right-click on strip title.
> > Open Link in New Window
> >
> > The comments will be there.
>
> Huh. Opening the link in a new tab also works, at least in Firefox.

Aha! The answer was literally right in front of my nose, in the form of
the links I previously posted, but I didn't realize it until looking at
them again after reading this post.

All of the links to each strip on the main CK page are delivering
content via secure HTTP (HTTPS). Disqus is almost certainly delivering
comments via regular, non-secure HTTP. Most browsers block non-secure
HTTP content by default on HTTPS pages, hence the script error I was
getting in Chrome. The fix in Chrome is to either click on the error
icon and allow the blocked content, or simply delete the "s" from
"https" in the address bar when loading the page to force it to load via
HTTP instead of HTTPS.

CK must've just made the change to load pages via HTTPS, and Disqus
hasn't caught up with them yet (or CK hasn't configured the site
properly):

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-
US/docs/Web/Security/Mixed_content/How_to_fix_website_with_mixed_content

http://preview.tinyurl.com/jcggm5t

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Dave