imported trac comment
created: 2010-06-19 18:36:28
author: justin

I've sent the attached patch to the email address on the HTTPS Everywhere page. The patch adds sending of rewrite notifications through the observer service. If this patch or something similar is added, RP can subscribe to the topic and use the information to allow requests that would have been allowed had they not be rewritten.

imported trac comment
created: 2010-06-28 15:27:53
author: justin

This doesn't seem to be happening with Fx 3.7a6pre. It may be the case that a Fx change doesn't cause shouldLoad to be called in some of the situations it was before.

Here's the RP output from a google search for "ipv6", then clicking on the wikipedia link. This is with RP 0.5.15a2 and HTTPS Everywhere 0.1.2.

{{{
[RequestPolicy] [INFO] [INTERNAL] Link clicked from https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=ipv6&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6.
[RequestPolicy] [WARNING] [CONTENT] ** ALLOWED ** reason: User-initiated request by link click. type: 6, destination: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6, origin: https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=ipv6&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a, context: [object XULElement], mime: , null
}}}

And with Fx 3.0.19 (same version of RP and HTTPS Everywhere):

{{{
[RequestPolicy] [INFO] [INTERNAL] Link clicked from https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=ipv6&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6.
[RequestPolicy] [WARNING] [CONTENT] ** BLOCKED ** reason: hosts don't match. type: 6, destination: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/IPv6, origin: https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=ipv6&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a, context: [object XULElement], mime: , null
}}}

I initially noticed the problem with 3.6.3. It had the same behavior as 3.0.19.

imported trac comment
created: 2010-06-28 15:38:07
author: justin

Actually, it could just be which order each extension's shouldLoad is called in.

imported trac comment
created: 2010-10-16 19:10:51
author: justin

The !RequestPolicy changes to listen for the "https-everywhere-uri-rewrite" topic have been made in r359 and released in 0.5.16a1. (Oops, forgot to mention this ticket in the r359 commit message.)

I wasn't able to successfully test on 3.0.19 because I couldn't get https_everywhere to work there. Testing on 3.6.10 with the patch provided to https_everywhere works. I haven't had a conflict between the two extension in the Fx 4 betas.

I'll wait until https_everywhere is patched before closing this ticket. See https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/1574 for more info.