An easier solution might be a change to userscripts to always redirect http requests to https.
-- Klaus Johannes Rusch [email protected] http://klausrusch.atmedia.net/Nicholas <[email protected]> wrote:Hello, I have authored about a dozen or so scripts currently hosted on Userscripts and am having trouble understanding how the automatic update process in Greasemonkey applies to scripts installed from that location. I'm asking because what I'm currently seeing is that no scripts installed from Userscripts are, by default, automatically checked for updates. By default Greasemonkey requires a secure connection to install script updates (which makes sense). According to the documentation, if a script is installed without the @updateURL or @downloadURL headers, then the original install location will be used. The problem with this system is that, by default, scripts are installed from a non-secure location on Userscripts. Because of this, it seems like the only way to get automatic updates to work with UserScripts is to manually include the @update directives in the metablock of the script. Is there a possibility that Greasemonkey might be changed so that it treats scripts installed from Userscripts as a special case such that if a script is installed from a non-secure location (say, http://userscripts.org/scripts/source/1.user.js) and it does NOT include any @update directives, then the corresponding secure location is used as a fall-back (in this case, https://userscripts.org/scripts/source/1.user.js). Since Userscripts supports both HTTP and HTTPS connections, connectivity shouldn't be a problem. The only issue would be whether Userscripts can be trusted to serve the same content from both locations -- but since the user is already trusting Userscripts, that doesn't seem like an issue. If this change were put in place, it would allow all scripts installed from Userscripts to be automatically updatable by default without needing @update directives. That seems to go along with the original goal of automatic script updates. Thanks for reading. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "greasemonkey-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greasemonkey-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "greasemonkey-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greasemonkey-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
