Stronger Browser Security Standards (HTTPS)

[sandyoutlet]

Starting today, you will see changes on eBay item description pages that contain non-compliant HTTP content. Google Chrome has pushed their browser update which includes stronger security standards. As a result, eBay will be adding a "see full item description" button to all listings that contain non-compliant HTTP content.

This new experience will look very similar to the way mobile buyers already see listing descriptions today. It also ensures that we comply with the Google mandate and prevents your buyers from seeing a “Not Secure” warning when they’re shopping on eBay

Please review our landing page for more information and tools to help you identify any of your listings that may contain non-compliant HTTP content. 

EDIT 11/8/17 @ 12:23 PT 

We are aware of an issue where the eBay HTTPS identification tool is showing listings that were revised to be HTTPS compliant after 10/31 as non-compliant. We are actively working on this issue and plan to have a quick fix for any new or revised listings. Any existing listings that have been updated to be HTTPS compliant but are still showing as non-compliant in the tool will continue to show as non-compliant until the listing is either revised or renewed. If you do not revise or relist, the issue will automatically correct after 30 days.

Please note that if your listings are compliant, they will show normally to buyers and have the “secure” message in the URL. You can confirm this experience by looking at the live listing. This issue is confined to our tool that identifies non-compliant listings, which is currently failing to update to show listings as compliant after you have updated your http content to be compliant.

We apologize for this issue and will update you here as soon as the issue is resolved.

[wbattles]

Unfortunately, while the listings are "new" the templates for them were created awhile back. I haven't and doubt I can now update my version of Turbo Lister.

I'm just going to have to pay for a third party software like Six-Bit and transfer items over and edit out the http items. I really prefer to self-host pics by guess ebay pictures will be used. Bleah!

[vw]

" I really prefer to self-host pics by guess ebay pictures will be used. Bleah!"

eBay is enforcing this for more then the obvious reasons.

When we embed pictures in our listings Google is able to grab them for their catalog, when eBay hosts them they are not available for Google's picture catalog. . .

[usa-attachments]

Here is a quick way to check https listing compliance: https://bulkchecker.i-ways.net/ebay/en-us . If you don't want to sign in, click item # and put in the item number. 

[terrycanarsky]

No, it's far too many.  Why would you do something 1,000+ times before figuring out if it worked the first 10 times?

I was using the bulk editer - 5 pages of 200 each (plus a few others).  Silly me, I made the assumption that eBay's equipment was working correctly.  Then I started checking listings at random which I knew had been in the batches - only to find that the changes had, indeed, not been enacted though I had gone through all the prompts and received eBay's congratulations on the "successful" changes.

~M

[shipscript]

@usa-attachments

I looked at the linked stylesheets and one of them has a comment at the top with a reference to http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0. While that comment should not pose a problem, I don't know how eBay scans, so you might want to change the protocol to https.

When I scanned your 162 listings with the Bulk Scanner

http://www.isdntek.com/ebaytools/ActiveContentScanner.htm

it found that most were missing the target attribute in your store links, and one still had https issues within the description.

[usa-attachments]

@shipscript

Thanks for taking the time to scan my auctions. You're right, I should have:

  <a href="https://stores.ebay.com/USA-ATTACHMENTS" target="_blank"> NOT

<a href="https://stores.ebay.com/USA-ATTACHMENTS">

I'm going to fix this right now because its in the eBay guidlines to use "target" = "_blank".

[happydaysantiques]

usa-attachments...I used your bulkchecker link to check one of my completed listings that had not sold.  Like yours, mine shows the "See Full Description" button when I view it from my Unsold list.  Yet the bulkchecker results are compliant:

All HTML resources are HTTPS compliant.

No Javascript in source code.

No HTML forms in source code.

No mobile-incompatible plugin.

I want to relist it (and others that also have the button), but hesitate to take a chance.  As I mentioned above, is it possible the button is there because it is a completed listing, and the button will be gone once I relist?

Thanks so much.

[usa-attachments]

I made a quick tool that should check which auctions show the "See Item Description" button

http://www.cantheyseeit.com/

For the tool to work, you need to have rss enabled on your store. You just copy and paste the RSS url in the form.

I just made this site, so it may take 48 hours the dns to propagate.

[readabouthorses]

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@happydaysantiques wrote:

usa-attachments...I used your bulkchecker link to check one of my completed listings that had not sold.  Like yours, mine shows the "See Full Description" button when I view it from my Unsold list.  Yet the bulkchecker results are compliant:

All HTML resources are HTTPS compliant.

No Javascript in source code.

No HTML forms in source code.

No mobile-incompatible plugin.

I want to relist it (and others that also have the button), but hesitate to take a chance.  As I mentioned above, is it possible the button is there because it is a completed listing, and the button will be gone once I relist?

Thanks so much.

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I just relisted one of mine from my Unsolds that had the See Item Description button on it when viewed as a Completed but it doesn't seem to carry over to the live listing. This was just one test so I can't say it will be OK on everything that shows this button in the Unsolds.

We need the person who started this thread to come back and answer a whole bunch of the questions in here that everyone has.

[usa-attachments]

I'm sorry everyone but I have to take the tool http://cantheyseeit.com down.

[usa-attachments]

thanks for doing that test so the rest of us don't have to.  keep me posted on your findings.

[cornellpubs]

I certainly agree the Ebay has some hare-brained ideas and this is one of them! Makes no sense, as I understand it, HTTPS verifies a website has an owner and a location and has nothing to do with the text at that site which is now uploaded to Ebay and not linked to my website.

[happydaysantiques]

Thanks so much, readabouthorses.  If your new listing is the August 1969 magazine, yes, the full description is visible, at least on Firefox.  And that poses more questions:  What PC or mobile device is my viewer using?  And what are they seeing?

I do wish someone would return with answers.

But I can't thank you enough for trying it on one of your Unsolds.  Guess I'll try it, too.

[happydaysantiques]

I forgot to mention that my Unsolds also don't show all of my shipping options, just the first one shown on my original listing.  In two cases I offered three options.

So be sure to check the other information, too, when you relist.  I hope it's like the Description button, and will be correct when relisting.

[shipscript]

@wbattles

While most of your listings have the non-secure Turbo Lister icon, many of your listings also have your own embedded images.

The Turbo Lister icon can be fixed in bulk using eBay's Bulk Edit And Replace (BEAR) tool.  You would find 

http://pics.ebay.com

and replace with

https://pics.ebay.com

That would not touch your self-hosted images.

Now, if you want to use the same bulk editor to annihilate your hosted images, you would find this

src=http://www.battlestamps.com

and replace with

src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" style="display:none" title=

What that will do is change the image content from your hosted version to a simple clear dot that is embedded in the image tag and is not hosted anywhere. Thus, there are no security issues. The leftover part of your old image URL is then assigned to the title attribute to keep the browser happy. Then we make the new valid image invisible.

The only reason to change your images using this method is to make it easy to revise using eBay's bulk editing tool (BEAR), which can't use wildcards and can't accept a string longer than 1000 characters.

If you wanted to remove all images completely, we could take advantage of wildcards and construct a filter that would remove images entirely within the Bulk Active Content Editor in conjunction with eBay's File Exchange. If you would like to pursue that, or need help setting up your removals, please ask for help on the Active Content forum where I will be happy to assist.

http://community.ebay.com/t5/Replacing-Active-Content/bd-p/activecontent