[HTTPS-Everywhere] HTTPS Everywhere question

[Jake Hartz]

Sorry for the late reply...

1. I've tried with the latest version from eff.org (1.0.3) and the latest
development version (2.0development.2) - both have this issue.
2. Yes (even in the development release, everything works fine when the
YouTube rule is disabled)
3. I'm not sure - at first, it doesn't seem to be related, but "the plot
thickens" as you go down the comments.

More info: The Firefox extension I'm working on (MP4
Downloader<http://mp4downloader.mozdev.org/>)
has a feature that finds embedded YouTube videos in web pages and adds the
ability to download them. It sends an XMLHttpRequest to "
http://www.youtube.com/get_video_info?video_id=VIDEO_ID" (in chrome code, so
no cross-domain problems) - the actual code can be found
here<http://www.mozdev.org/source/browse/mp4downloader/src/1.3.x/chrome/content/mp4downloader.js?rev=1.99;content-type=text%2Fx-cvsweb-markup;ln=1#l685>(this
is the revision before I changed the request to use HTTPS - and many
other things are pretty buggy, too, but that's because this is still "trunk"
code). This request never seems to go through with the YouTube rule enabled,
but disabling the YouTube rule or changing the request to HTTPS both fix the
problem for me. I will probably just permanently change that request to
HTTPS (but do you know if this might cause any side-effects, since you
probably know YouTube's HTTPS workings better than me?)

I understand if you don't really have any time to look into this.

Thanks a lot,
Jake


On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Peter Eckersley <pde at eff.org> wrote:

> Hi Jake:
>
> 1. Which version are you running?
> 2. Do you have the YouTube ruleset enabled?
> 3. I wonder if this is the same bug as
>   https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/4149 ?
>
> On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 10:20:18PM -0400, Jake Hartz wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a Firefox extension that seems to conflict with HTTPS Everywhere
> > (which I love, by the way). Whenever it tries to make an XMLHttpRequest
> to
> > YouTube (such as one to "
> > http://www.youtube.com/get_video_info?video_id=Tx1XIm6q4r4"), it fails
> > (although it works fine when HTTPS Everywhere isn't installed). When
> > listening to onreadystatechange on the XHR object, it is only called once
> > (with a readyState of 1 and HTTP status 0). It is acting as if the
> request
> > fails right in the middle of loading. Do you think you would know
> anything
> > more about this? (If I use HTTPS instead of HTTP in the XHR object, it
> works
> > fine, so I might just do this - but I might have to do a bit of testing
> to
> > make sure it still works as expected.)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jake
>
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>
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> Peter Eckersley                            pde at eff.org
> Technology Projects Director      Tel  +1 415 436 9333 x131
> Electronic Frontier Foundation    Fax  +1 415 436 9993
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