RequestPolicy/tractest — Issue #243: Requestpolicy filtering is not applied while saving a page!
Author: jsamuel
Created: 2011-12-22 02:48:58+00:00
State: open
Labels: extension

As all who are using Requestpolicy probably noticed: one of the most frequently used cross site linking is that by googleanalitics to track our usage online. also other ads etc.

The most interesting (and often privacy sensitive!) pages I often save to HDD, (as you never know if it's still available next year!)

PROBLEM: when Firefox saves a page, it unfortunately doesn't save the page from cache 'as it's displayed' (and without the blocked content from cross linked sites), but rather goes ahead and REDOWNLOADS the entire page. INCLUDING all Cross site links and content! I've noticed looking at the saved pages that requestpolicy is NOT applied when saving a page to disk, and as a result whatever junk requestpolicy prevented me from having to connect to, is not only connected to anyway, but saved with the page on my drive.

Being addicted to the privacy and protection Requestpolicy gives me, I feel defeated having to connect to all those sites i wanted blocked in order to save those pages i deem most interesting!
This behaviour in my opinion defeats the purpose of requestpolicy. This is why I listed this as a 'flaw'

Not sure, ofcourse this might be classified not as a bug but as a feature request. ''In fact I'd wish that firefox just saved the page like it's displayed, that would save all this trouble.''
But if not too much trouble it would make requestpolicy more comprehensive if the filtering would ALSO be applied when firefox connects to a website after choosing 'save page as..'

Saving the page as 'HTML' only, would not in itself protect cross site linking on download, but ofcourse block images and javascript from being downloaded from C.L.S.'s. But this is for me not so desireable as i use 'saveuri', the first add-on i ever installed, it saves the url of the page in question inside the page, but saveuri uses javascript and is not saved when only saving HTML.

PS: THANK YOU for the creation of requestpolicy! Also thanks for accepting the 'blacklist' feature! I ALWAYS want to block certain sites like googleanalitics, and so when a page needs cross linking to work i could 'temporarily' allow cross linking WITHOUT letting it connect to my blacklisted sites!