Hi,

On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 11:46:03AM +0100, Konrad Hinsen wrote:
>  > Well, what came to my mind just after reading the subject was the
>  > HTTPS Everywhere[1] Firefox extension which just works fine with
>  > conkeror. It's a plugin which rewrites URLs according to some
>  > configuable rules from http to https (and in some cases also parts of
>  > the remainder of the URL) before the access happens.
>  > 
>  >   [1] https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
> 
> I tried this approach and it works very well. This extension does not
> allow arbitrary URL rewrites, but for my purposes it is good enough.

Glad to have helped.

> It also works fine with Conkeror, but I had to download it to a local
> file using wget before being able to install it.

If you run Debian Wheezy or Sid, you can use the
xul-ext-https-everywhere package[1] (it supports Debian's conkeror
package).

  [1] http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=https-everywhere

If you are on Ubuntu the Debian package may work, too.

                Kind regards, Axel
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