On Fri, 28 May 2010 12:55:19 -0700 Seth David Schoen <sch...@eff.org> wrote: >Scott Bennett writes: > >> What seems to be missing from this discussion is the fact that NoScript >> already supports forcing HTTPS on a site-by-site or pattern basis. You >> should be using NoScript already if you use Firefox, so just tell it what >> to do. > >There's one piece of additional functionality that was added in >HTTPS Everywhere that can be important for these sites. Although >NoScript lets you use regular expressions to choose which URLs >within a site get converted to HTTPS, NoScript doesn't let you >rewrite _the URL itself_, which HTTPS Everywhere does (also >using regular expression substitutions). For example, the >current alpha version of HTTPS Everywhere correctly handles >Wikipedia rewrites like > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security > --> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Security > >http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicherheit > --> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/wiki/Sicherheit > >http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segurança > --> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/pt/wiki/Segurança > That is a nice feature! Two questions now occur to me. Will this add-on become available from the Mozilla web site? And are there any interaction problems between HTTPS Everywhere and NoScript?
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