[HTTPS-Everywhere] compatibility with other add-on

[Peter Eckersley]

Hi Loic,

The only extension I'm aware of that uses the "https-everywhere-uri-rewrite"
notification is RequestPolicy (Justin Samuel, the author of RequestPolicy,
wrote the patch to add this notification to HTTPS Everywhere).

I suspect that the way it is currently implemented might be slightly
non-optimal (in some cases, if you had an nsIHTTPChannel, we could have a
notification that gives you back a new, replacement HTTPS channel so that you
don't have to try making the request again).  But it should work.

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 01:39:16PM -0400, Loic J. Duros wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The add-on I workon, LibreJS (http://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/
> ), does not catch URI changes that https-everywhere makes for
> certain rules (google-services is one of them.)
> Whenever a URL doesn't go through, the log function returns "DOM
> window exploded". One of the issues is that LibreJS performs a
> number of xhr requests before passing on the intercepted http
> response, and when your extension switches a url from http to https,
> the request never gets completed.
> 
> I have read that to remedy to the issue of incompatibility,
> https-everywhere has set up a custom notification
> "https-everywhere-uri-rewrite". Do you have any concrete examples on
> how this works, or do you know any extension or add-on that make use
> of this and have achieved compatibility with https-everywhere?
> 
> Many thanks for your help,
> 
> Loic Duros
> 
> 

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