HTTPS Everywhere Firefox addon

[Stephen Carpenter]

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 7:47 AM,  <andrew at torproject.org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 07:34:01PM -0700, mikeperry at fscked.org wrote 1.7K bytes in 51 lines about:
> : The eventual idea is to allow an Adblock Plus style model, where users
> : can submit and exchange rule files and eventually create subscriptions
> : for the sites they use that partially support SSL.
>
> Perhaps this is a dumb question, why not try the https:// version of
> every http site the user requests?  If it works, reload to the https
> url.

That sounds great about 90% of the time. However, think of someone who
is troubleshooting something or is dealing with a site
that has https and http content that are not the same, but may share
the same URLs (or URLs that at least don't error).

Doing it by site according to rules makes a lot of sense, that way I
just can leave out rules for any special sites, or sites that I might
personally be working on and need to be able to use both ways (testing
to be sure it works for the masses)

-Steve
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