If a logged-in user attempts to visit /wp-admin over HTTPHTTP HTTP is an acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. HTTP is the underlying protocol used by the World Wide Web and this protocol defines how messages are formatted and transmitted, and what actions Web servers and browsers should take in response to various commands. on some Make sites that they don’t have access to, they get stuck in a redirect loopLoop The Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop..
It doesn’t affect all of the sites, though, and it doesn’t happen if they request it over HTTPSHTTPS HTTPS is an acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure. HTTPS is the secure version of HTTP, the protocol over which data is sent between your browser and the website that you are connected to. The 'S' at the end of HTTPS stands for 'Secure'. It means all communications between your browser and the website are encrypted. This is especially helpful for protecting sensitive data like banking information..
e..g, requesting https://make.wordpress.org/training/wp-admin redirects to https://make.wordpress.org/training/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=handbook and then fails.
I’m seeing it on /training, /docs, /coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., and /metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress., but not on /community. I didn’t test beyond that, though.