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Started by retrorussell, March 27, 2014, 05:57:54 PM

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retrorussell

March 27, 2014, 05:57:54 PM
Hey gang. 
Notice how YouTube isn't always letting you copy/paste a video on badmovies.org?  It's because the link adds an "s" to the http in the URL.  You have to erase it.  Isn't that stupid?
"O the legend they say, on a Valentine's Day, is a curse that'll live on and on.."

Rev. Powell

#1
March 27, 2014, 06:42:05 PM
Quote from: retrorussell on March 27, 2014, 05:57:54 PM
Hey gang. 
Notice how YouTube isn't always letting you copy/paste a video on badmovies.org?  It's because the link adds an "s" to the http in the URL.  You have to erase it.  Isn't that stupid?

Hmm, that appears to be new... youtube is now forcing an https connection, and if you go to the http version of the site it redirects you. I don't think they are doing it to try to stop embedding, though. The "s" in https stands for "secure" and it's meant to provide more privacy to the end user. In the future all connections will be via https.

It looks to me like if you hit the "share this video" link it will provide you with a http link.

http://youtu.be/mlnaLkkuThA

Interesting.
I'll take you places the hand of man has not yet set foot...

Allhallowsday

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March 27, 2014, 06:58:27 PM
Quote from: Rev. Powell on March 27, 2014, 06:42:05 PM
Quote from: retrorussell on March 27, 2014, 05:57:54 PM
Hey gang. 
Notice how YouTube isn't always letting you copy/paste a video on badmovies.org?  It's because the link adds an "s" to the http in the URL.  You have to erase it.  Isn't that stupid?

Hmm, that appears to be new... youtube is now forcing an https connection, and if you go to the http version of the site it redirects you. I don't think they are doing it to try to stop embedding, though. The "s" in https stands for "secure" and it's meant to provide more privacy to the end user. In the future all connections will be via https.

It looks to me like if you hit the "share this video" link it will provide you with a http link.

http://youtu.be/mlnaLkkuThA

Interesting.
I don't know that it's YouTube because I'd had the problem before.  REV helped me sort it out this time, and almost certainly, before, maybe a year or so ago.  I think it's Java related, but, as stated many times:  I don't know my a$$ from my elbow. 
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retrorussell

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March 27, 2014, 08:42:15 PM
Quote from: Rev. Powell on March 27, 2014, 06:42:05 PM
Quote from: retrorussell on March 27, 2014, 05:57:54 PM
Hey gang. 
Notice how YouTube isn't always letting you copy/paste a video on badmovies.org?  It's because the link adds an "s" to the http in the URL.  You have to erase it.  Isn't that stupid?

Hmm, that appears to be new... youtube is now forcing an https connection, and if you go to the http version of the site it redirects you. I don't think they are doing it to try to stop embedding, though. The "s" in https stands for "secure" and it's meant to provide more privacy to the end user. In the future all connections will be via https.

It looks to me like if you hit the "share this video" link it will provide you with a http link.

http://youtu.be/mlnaLkkuThA

Interesting.
Thanks for the clarity.  It felt good to blame it on YouTube, what with other crap they've pulled on me in recent times.
"O the legend they say, on a Valentine's Day, is a curse that'll live on and on.."

Derf

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March 27, 2014, 09:16:56 PM
I noticed that today. I just deleted the "https://" altogether and it seems to work fine. In other words, just copy the "www.youtube.etc" part.
"They tap dance not, neither do they fart." --Greensleeves, on the Fig Men of the Imagination, in "Twice Upon a Time."

Javakoala

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March 27, 2014, 09:31:27 PM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on March 27, 2014, 06:58:27 PM
I don't know that it's YouTube because I'd had the problem before.  REV helped me sort it out this time, and almost certainly, before, maybe a year or so ago.  I think it's Java related, but, as stated many times:  I don't know my a$$ from my elbow. 

Your elbow is the thing that doesn't fart.

Rev. Powell

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March 28, 2014, 08:16:27 AM
Quote from: Derf on March 27, 2014, 09:16:56 PM
I noticed that today. I just deleted the "https://" altogether and it seems to work fine. In other words, just copy the "www.youtube.etc" part.

Nice tip - maybe the easiest solution.
I'll take you places the hand of man has not yet set foot...

Trevor

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March 28, 2014, 08:52:01 AM
Quote from: Javakoala on March 27, 2014, 09:31:27 PM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on March 27, 2014, 06:58:27 PM
I don't know that it's YouTube because I'd had the problem before.  REV helped me sort it out this time, and almost certainly, before, maybe a year or so ago.  I think it's Java related, but, as stated many times:  I don't know my a$$ from my elbow. 

Your elbow is the thing that doesn't fart.

:buggedout: :buggedout: +  :bouncegiggle: :teddyr:
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Josso

#8
March 28, 2014, 09:17:30 AM
I personally use a different system

Quote<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/{TEXT}&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/{TEXT}&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>

Where {TEXT} is the bit after ?v= and before any & - but the problem with that is lusers have to put in minimal effort  :teddyr:

For all you less computer literate people, basically, HTTPS IS GOOD! FORCE HTTPS IS GOOD! A step in the right direction.
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