[HTTPS-Everywhere] Overriding warning about insecure form submission

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Mon Oct 31 04:12:11 PDT 2011


On 31/10/11 10:50, Kristen Eisenberg wrote:

> A small number of sites have hardcoded form submission targets to
> use HTTP URLs, which generates a warning that
> 
> Although this page is encrypted, the information you have entered is
> to be sent over an unencrypted connection and could easily be read by
> a third party.
> 
> Two current examples are
> 
> https://pay.reddit.com/

I've come across this too. A possible fix for this might be for the
HTTPS-Everywhere addon to intercept form submissions and rewrite the
action attribute according to the rulesets.

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