[HTTPS-Everywhere] Ruleset colours, what do they mean

Sujit Rao sujitkrao at gmail.com
Fri Apr 27 16:45:47 PDT 2012


Might I suggest documenting this somewhere on the HTTPS Everywhere
site? It's a little non-obvious.

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Peter Eckersley <pde at eff.org> wrote:
>
> The colours are:
>
> dark green:  ruleset was active in loading the resources in the current
> page
>
> light green: ruleset was ready to prevent HTTP loads in the current page,
> but
>             everything that the ruleset would have covered was loaded over
>             HTTPS anyway (possibly because of a rewrite that HTTPS
> Everywhere
>             performed before the current DOM was instantiated, as is the
> case
>             with the http://www.google.com -> https://encrypted.google.com
>             rewrite for example)
>
>             (in the code, light green is called a "moot rule")
>
> dark brown:  broken rule -- the ruleset is active but the server is
>             redirecting at least some URLs back from HTTPS to HTTP
>
> grey:        the ruleset is disabled
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 03:33:30PM -0700, Fruitless Creek wrote:
> > Just noticed a new colour on a ruleset, dark brown.
> >
> > There are at least two other colours as well, dark green and light
> > green. Are there more?
> >
> > What do they mean?
> >
> > https://imgur.com/a/VyJou
>
>
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