[HTTPS-Everywhere] Twitter not being fully encrypted

Gasper Zejn zejn at kiberpipa.org
Sun Oct 31 01:34:09 PDT 2010


In the Twitter.xml rule file there's this comment:

leave this twimg rule out until we've sorted out the bug where some
images are confused with favicons

and the rule is

from="^http://[a-z0-9].?\.twimg\.com/"
  to="https://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/"

which is wrong. Twitter is using Amazon Cloudfront, which offers HTTPS without 
need to rewrite to s3.amazonaws.com[1]. 

The rule should rather be:

<rule from="^http://[a-z0-9].?\.twimg\.com/" to="https://$1.twimg.com/" />


Regards,
Gasper

[1] http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2010/06/07/amazon-cloudfront-
adds-https-support-lowers-prices-opens-nyc-edge-location/



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