Games no longer start when pressing play

[picosonic]

It would seem that games won't start any longer when pressing play on either the summary list or details page of a game.

I think it relates to the diskimage URL being http and not https.

e.g.

https://bbcmicro.co.uk//jsbeeb/play.php ... ssd&noseek

The error I see is

An error occurred - sorry!
While initialising:
Error: A network error occurred loading http://bbcmicro.co.uk//gameimg/discs/74 ... oggerP.ssd

When I manually change the discimage part of the URL to https it then works as expected.

...&disc=https://bbcmicro.co.uk//gameimg/discs/7 ... ssd&noseek

The browser console, has this error

Blocked loading mixed active content "http://bbcmicro.co.uk//gameimg/discs/74 ... oggerP.ssd"

Which confirms that it's the browser blocking HTTP content when the main page is served by HTTPS

[lurkio]

I'll try and have a look, but I'm an amateur webdev at best, and the real problem is that the original developer of bbcmicro.co.uk hasn't been active in the community for a while, and no one has really replaced him.

[picosonic]

I'll try and have a look, but I'm an amateur webdev at best, and the real problem is that the original developer of bbcmicro.co.uk hasn't been active in the community for a while, and no one has really replaced him.

I think you just need to detect if it's HTTP or HTTPS then adjust disk image URL accordingly.

I'd be happy to look if it would help.

[sweh]

FWIW, http sites will always be able to download content from http or https; but I believe https sites are now restricted by the browser to only access https served data.

However when I just looked, pressing the "play" button went to a http site ( e.g. http://bbcmicro.co.uk//jsbeeb/play.php? ... ssd&noseek ), I saw the "not secure" warning on the URL bar, and the game loaded just fine.

Maybe lurkio just hacked this solution

[picosonic]

FWIW, http sites will always be able to download content from http or https; but I believe https sites are now restricted by the browser to only access https served data.

However when I just looked, pressing the "play" button went to a http site ( e.g. http://bbcmicro.co.uk//jsbeeb/play.php? ... ssd&noseek ), I saw the "not secure" warning on the URL bar, and the game loaded just fine.

Maybe lurkio just hacked this solution

You’re right.

I think the issue is when I visit the site it auto directs me to the https site. Then when the URLs are generated for the play buttons they just always put in http for the disc image part.

This works if the site is browsed to in http but not if the site is browsed too as https or if you get auto redirected to https.

Just needs to honour the URL scheme of the referring page, then all good for both.

[MarkMoxon]

It would seem that games won't start any longer when pressing play on either the summary list or details page of a game.

I think it relates to the diskimage URL being http and not https.

This should be fixed now - I've tweaked the link code so that the http/https protocol in the "play" link is the same as the page URL (so there should no longer be a mismatch between the parent page and the argument sent to JSBeeb). Hopefully this will fix the network errors in JSBeeb.

Let me know if you are still having problems!

Mark

[picosonic]

This should be fixed now - I've tweaked the link code so that the http/https protocol in the "play" link is the same as the page URL (so there should no longer be a mismatch between the parent page and the argument sent to JSBeeb). Hopefully this will fix the network errors in JSBeeb.

Let me know if you are still having problems!

Thanks for the swift fix, yes all good now