I am one of the people who has spent much of the day working on that problem - I wrote https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/3789 to document it.

I run one of the affected projects - NumberFields@home - so I have seen the problem with my own eyes, and tested the workround.

I also run GPUGrid, with HTTPS, and I can confirm that GPUGrid is not affected by this.

I also run GPUGrid, with HTTPS, and I can confirm that GPUGrid is not affected by this.

yes, this is true. World Community Grid is not affected either.
Among the affected projects are LHC, Rosetta, and, as said above, NumberFields@home.

I have a work unit that says it is downloading, it has been downloading for about the last day. Anything I can do to get it unstuck? Windows 10 user.

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I have a work unit that says it is downloading, it has been downloading for about the last day. Anything I can do to get it unstuck? Windows 10 user.

I've had that a few times too. I could get the problem solved only by aborting the download. However, if doing this, no furhter tasks can be downloaded for a while, as long as BOINC says "a download is stalled". So I always waited quite a while until this notice disappeared. Somewhere here in the forum recently I read that to shorten this "waiting period" just shut down BOINC and restart it.

Thank you. I just waited and it finally got unstuck on its own. Next time I'll try restarting.

Hi! I think it works. Changed http to https and I collect WU's
Best regards,
Patrick

I just noticed something. I was scanning Chrome to see what was saved and I discovered it had 2 versions of this website: http & https. I deleted the http one and tried the https and it works much better now.

I can't get working unit. I am using boincstats. I have remove the projet add it again. nothing. I even tried to add it directly into boing manager (macOS) with the https, no luck either.

Is there other things I can try ?

I don't think they have a MAC version, though I run only Linux myself.
It is the "New version of ACEMD" that you need.
http://www.gpugrid.net/apps.php

And still credit only 0 here, for not any Science United or even Folding@home it could be instead.

Give me a laugh.

And still credit only 0 here, for not any Science United or even Folding@home it could be instead.

Give me a laugh.

Your computer downloaded 2 tasks at 23:15 utc.
You posted the above 25 minutes after the WUs downloaded?? I guess that is a little humorous.

It seems you have solved the issue and are up and running. good luck!

Logging into the website is insecure according to Firefox. If you go to https://gpugrid.net/login_form.php or https://www.gpugrid.net/login_form.php they both redirect to the insecure one (http://www.gpugrid.net/login_form.php). The login link at the top of the forum pages also goes to the insecure one.

Given you have to enter your email address and password on this screen it needs to be secure.

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Yes, HTTP to HTTPS redirect still required for this website to complete the transition to a secured (trusted) site.

Logging into the website is insecure according to Firefox. If you go to https://gpugrid.net/login_form.php or https://www.gpugrid.net/login_form.php they both redirect to the insecure one (http://www.gpugrid.net/login_form.php). The login link at the top of the forum pages also goes to the insecure one.

Given you have to enter your email address and password on this screen it needs to be secure.

Uhm... behavior is different for me. If you start on https:, it stays like that. Can somebody have a closer look on this?

If you log out and log back in, you are on https sites on the main pages. You can view your account pages in https. You can view the forum listings pages in https.

However, as soon as you enter a forum page, and then click on a forum thread you drop out of https into http.

This is the only place I drop out of https into http. When entering a thread or replying in a thread.

This was checked in Chromium 85.0.4183.83.

Uhm... behavior is different for me. If you start on https:, it stays like that. Can somebody have a closer look on this?

I tried both of them. They stay on https: for me.

EDIT: And I went to the forums, and entered a topic, and they stayed on https: also.
This is on my Win7 64-bit machine with BOINC 7.16.7. ymmv

I'm seeing padlock on Forum index, no padlock in forum thread (and none while typing now).

Windows 7, Chrome browser.

Edit: 'no padlock' link is still https. Certificate check shows



Padlock is showing while I edit, with only text visible and no badge images. https image link didn't show in preview: shows after edit to http, but the padlock's gone again.

Edit 2: badges are https, but embedded images from users are http only.

OK, it is only happening in certain threads. Not all show this behavior.
I assume some prior post is triggering the down lock into http.

I'm seeing padlock on Forum index, no padlock in forum thread (and none while typing now).

Windows 7, Chrome browser.

This is interesting, for the experts at any rate. On Firefox 80.0, I am not seeing the padlock on the Index or the threads either went going to https://gpugrid.net/login_form.php.

But when going to https://www.gpugrid.net/login_form.php, I see the padlock on the threads but not on the index.

I am glad you have something to do if you are on lockdown or whatever.

Try these two forum threads.
No tasks to send
The hardware enthusiast's corner
No tasks to send is in https
The hardware enthusiast's corner is in http.