RequestPolicy/tractest — Issue #115: conflict with HTTPS Everywhere
Author: jsamuel
Created: 2011-12-22 02:40:29+00:00
State: open
Labels: extension

The [https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere HTTPS Everywhere] extension rewrites HTTP requests to HTTPS equivalents. I've noticed this with link clicks (e.g. wikipedia links in google results). I haven't looked into the HTTPS Everywhere code yet, but it's safe to assume that RP doesn't realize the rewritten requests correspond to the original http:// link clicks and so is blocking them.

There are likely other requests besides link clicks that are affected. Some of these may get messy to deal with in a way that doesn't accidentally allow requests that shouldn't have been allowed.