Re: [Full-disclosure] extension for Firefox to force HTTPS always?

[silky <michaelslists@xxxxxxxxx>]

on the google sites; customisegoogle lets you force them into ssl. but
obviously that's not all sites.


On 10/13/07, Kristian Erik Hermansen <kristian.hermansen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So one example is that you are in a wifi cafe and you want to browse
> sites which may be available on both http and https.  One example is
> when you browse google calendar.  By default you will get http even
> after logging in over https.  It doesn't really matter anyways and I
> should just code this up for myself.  I was just wondering if
> something already existed...that whole code reuse concept...you know
> :-/
>
>
> On 10/12/07, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx <Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:06:14 PDT, Kristian Erik Hermansen said:
> > > I just wanted to clarify that I am looking for an extension that will
> > > rewrite all encountered HTTP references in Firefox to HTTPS.  I would
> > > already have a firewall or some other layer7 filtering device blocking
> > > unencrypted traffic.  The addon "Better Gmail" does something similar
> > > to this, with the "force HTTPS" option, but not exactly...
> >
> > What should this hypothetical extension do if it automagically redirects
> > http: to https:, but the target server is something that is only listening
> > on port 80 because it doesn't have https: enabled?
> >
> > https://www.cnn.com just sorta sits there for me.
> >
> >
>
>
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> Kristian Erik Hermansen
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