Is the Demo server available?

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asked Aug 13, 2021 in Question / help by codex24 (120 points)

In May 2021, I had worked extensively on a sequence diagram on the PlantUML demo server, which generated a URL of the form, "http://www.plantuml.com/plantuml/uml/XLFDY[...]6Fm00" ( where "[...]" => content omitted), visiting that or a similar URL frequently and editing the diagram source interactively.

Now, when I visit that URL or any other URL of the form "http://www.plantuml.com/plantuml/[...]" including the link on the PlantUML.com home page that reads "This example is working thanks to the online demo server", the page tries to load, and then appears to redirect to the PlantUML home page, "https://plantuml.com/". The interactive page with source entry and live diagram updates is not showing at all and no error message is displayed.

However, if I edit the example source on the home page, the diagram there is updated. I looked in the Internet Archive for snapshots of that page and found this, with the most recent snapshot being dated Jul 26, 2021, so if this is a malfunction, it must have happened fairly recently (within the last 2-1/2 weeks).

Is the public demo server still available? Is there a paywall I am missing? Please help get my UML editing capability back on line. Thank you.

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answered Aug 14, 2021 by kirchsth (4,980 points)
commented Aug 17, 2021 by codex24 (120 points)

After some experimentation, I discovered that the DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials extension to my Firefox browser was doing a redirection from http:// to https://. I disabled that extension and the edit screen appears as normal.

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