[HTTPS-Everywhere] EFF Ruleset

[Drake, Brian]

Then, as I originally asked, why doesn’t the EFF reprogram their servers so
that

https://secure.eff.org/wiretapping

and similar URLs return a redirect to whatever their preferred address is
instead of a 404 error?

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 0304 (UTC-8),
<https-everywhere at lists.grepular.com>wrote:

> On 29/12/2010 06:38, Drake, Brian wrote:
>
> > I obviously meant:
> >
> > <rule from="^http://secure\.eff\.org/" …
> >
> > This doesn’t change my original question.
>
> I just picked one of the rules at random:
>
> <rule from="^http://secure\.eff\.org/wiretapping"
>
> to="https://secure.eff.org/site/Donation2?idb=1344423068&#x26df_id=1220"
> />
>
> If we get rid of HTTPS-Everywhere for a second. This request:
>
> http://secure.eff.org/wiretapping
>
> Is a redirect to:
>
>
> https://secure.eff.org/site/Donation2?idb=800130093&df_id=1220&1220.donation=form1&JServSessionIdr004=08bcxydzk1.app213b
>
> However this request:
>
> https://secure.eff.org/wiretapping
>
> Is a 404.
>
> So that explains that rule. I'm assuming the other rules exist to handle
> similar issues but I'll leave that to you to test.
>
> --
> Mike Cardwell [snip]
>

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