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Comment by ticklemyelmo | Hacker News Reader

It looks like it's working too well. The site is unreachable for me.

Every time that URL comes up people try to access it from https but the site is only available from http... Fix your Firefox, it's clearly at fault here.

"Every time"?

If one random guy's complaining about a URL being unreachable and you're already seeing a pattern... is it at all possible the users aren't at fault?

In Thaxll's defense, I've seen this a lot with Netflix blog posts on HN.

To be fair it does happen frequently enough. I wouldn't say every time but often on Netflix posts. A bit of a sampling for you:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12269411

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12217900

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12038367

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11771714

It's NoScript's new-ish defaults at fault.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12256720

It's up.

down : Secure Connection Failed

The connection to techblog.netflix.com was interrupted while the page was loading.

It's only available on http, not https.

I am receiving a DNS error when trying to reach the URL

C:\Windows\System32>nslookup http://techblog.netflix.com/ 8.8.8.8

Server: google-public-dns-a.google.com

Address: 8.8.8.8

* google-public-dns-a.google.com can't find http://techblog.netflix.com/: Non-existent domain

remove the http:// part and try again?

I'm not on Windows, but I'm pretty sure your problem here is the "http://" - try just:

nslookup techblog.netflix.com 8.8.8.8

Looks like some sequence of events convinces Firefox that HSTS is set, and it always rewrites the request as https (which is not supported by the server) after that.

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