On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 03:03:22PM -0430, Andres Perera wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Joachim Schipper
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 01:30:39AM -0800, erikmccaskey64 wrote:
> >> I use privoxy. In the user.action file i have a redirect rule and a
> >> few websites:
> >>
> >>
> >> { +redirect{s@http://@https://@} }
> >> .twitter.com
> >> .facebook.com
> >
> > (...) your setup seems to work just fine (or as well as SSL does in
> > the first place). The "HTTPS Everywhere" Firefox extension would be a
> > less hacky solution, though.
>
> i'm curious as to why do you say that. afaik, https everywhere also
> works by rewriting the uri, just like privoxy or squid would, while
> not being limited to one browser, not being unable to log actions, not
> being unable to scale for a whole site instead of a single system,
> etc.
I dislike "transparently" messing with connections. If you use HTTPS
Everywhere, it's still your browser talking to
Facebook/Twitter/whatever.
Additionally, if Facebook ever sets its session cookes on, say,
facebookapi.com instead of facebook.com, the extension is likely to
receive an upgrade.
But yes, this is somewhat subjective; I'll try to make that clearer next
time.
Joachim
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