RequestPolicy/tractest — Issue #156: GUI does not show all blocked requests
Author: jsamuel
Created: 2011-12-22 02:43:36+00:00
State: open
Labels: extension

From what I recall of the source, the GUI lists of (blocked?) cross-site requests are guessed from the source of the page (eg src attributes); however, other requests are also possible.

For example, a greasemonkey userscript to parse a page and redirect to another domain will silently fail. The cause turned out to be that this was considered a cross-site request and shouldLoad() blocked, but there was no GUI indication.

After manually adding the domain as an allowed cross-site request, all worked as expected. Nevertheless, this behavior is particularly counter-intuitive and the list of blocked requests is incomplete...