[HTTPS-Everywhere] 0.2.0 is out

Peter Eckersley pde at eff.org
Wed Jun 30 19:20:38 PDT 2010


For unrelated reasons, it had to be followed very shortly by 0.2.1.

The problem was that some of the URLs we were generating at
https://www.google.com were no longer working, and so we had to change the
target to htts://encrypted.google.com urgently.

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 05:18:13PM -0700, Peter Eckersley wrote:
> (From the Changelog)
> 
> 0.2.0:
>   * Work around the fact that Google does not allow client=firefox* HTTPS
>     searches from outside the US, by rewriting those URIs
>   * Add rules for:
>     - Amazon
>     - GMX
>     - Live.com (Hotmail logins)
>     - Meebo
>     - the Netherlands Government
>     - Wordpress.com
>     - Zoho
>   * Remove the assumption that non-US searches would always start with an hl=
>     language parameter
>   * Handle searches to the google.com/firefox script better
>   * Remove accidental duplicates of a couple of rules!
>   * Bump maxVersion into the future so we're compatible with Firefox alphas
>   * Fix more legacy eff.org bugs
> 
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Peter Eckersley                            pde at eff.org
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Electronic Frontier Foundation    Fax  +1 415 436 9993



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