[HTTPS-Everywhere] Adding or removing of “www.”

[Drake, Brian]

Rules are often of the form:

<rule from="^http://(www\.)?domain/" to="https://domain/"/>

or

<rule from="^http://(www\.)?domain/" to="https://www.domain/"/>

Not only do these rules redirect to HTTPS, they potentially change the rest
of the address too. Presumably that’s because https://www.domain/ would
ultimately redirect to https://domain/ anyway (for the first form) or
https://domain/ would ultimately redirect to https://www.domain/ anyway (for
the second form).

In that case, why not change “http” to “https?” in the “from” values to save
a request to the server when https://domain/ (for the first form) or
https://www.domain/ (for the second form) is requested? The benefit would
far outweight the cost, I think.

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