Hi all, Thought this may be of interest for Freedom loving Linux users.
Peter Eckersley of the EFF and Mike Perry of the Tor project have written a Firefox addon to make it easier to use Google's SSL search feature, among other mixed-mode SSL sites: https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/ The addon is based on the NoScript STS/HTTPS forcing engine, with improvements in how rules are specified. Rules for our addon are specified as XML files that allow arbitrary URL rewrite substitution via regular expressions and exclude patterns. This allows us to write more complete and less error-prone rules than NoScript's include/exclude model allows. The eventual idea is to allow an Adblock Plus style model, where users can submit and exchange rule files and eventually create subscriptions for the sites they use that partially support SSL. We also hope that NoScript will share our rule format and update mechanisms, so that our rulesets will be interchangeable. Cheers, Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
