[HTTPS-Everywhere] Release 2.2 for Firefox seems to ignore default_off

[Peter Eckersley]

Actually, this is less urgent than I thought (the default_off field is still
functioning, it just isn't being displayed properly in the config window).

It's most likely that this was caused by this commit:

https://gitweb.torproject.org/https-everywhere.git/commitdiff/a1d02f16794ed4d593863e5921b4b05c93badf27


On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:28:15PM -0700, Peter Eckersley wrote:
> Argh, it looks like you're right.  We'll push a fix ASAP.
> 
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:30:15AM -0700, Christopher Liu wrote:
> > To whom it may concern:
> > 
> > The 2.2 release of HTTPS Everywhere for Firefox does not appear to
> > honor the default_off field in rulesets (either built-in or user).
> > I noticed the problem when I went to the configuration window to check
> > on the rulesets that were noted as broken, and I saw that they had not
> > been disabled as they should have been.
> > 
> > In this screenshot, observe that the 33Bits and 4Shared rulesets do
> > not show their default_off message (they are disabled because they had
> > been disabled previously).
> > 
> > http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/6262/he22defaultoffbroken1.png
> > 
> > The configuration window seems instead to show the value of match_rule
> > in the notes column. The following screenshot shows this for Stevens.
> > Indymedia has the same symptom.
> > 
> > http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/5236/he22defaultoffbroken2.png
> > 
> > I've verified that Error Console shows no name conflicts / parsing
> > failures for my user rulesets, nor any other error obviously caused by
> > HTTPS Everywhere. I looked in the default.rulesets file and saw that
> > the default_off fields were present.
> > I am using Firefox 14.0.1 for Windows, and HTTPS Everywhere was
> > updated from version 2.1. The problem did not occur in any previous
> > version.
> > 
> > If you are unable to reproduce this, please explain where I should
> > begin troubleshooting. Thank you for your time and help.
> > 
> > C. Liu
> > 
> > P.S. Expect me to send at least one email to the
> > https-everywhere-rules list within the next couple days ... I know
> > we're all in a hurry now that 3.0 is coming soon ...
> > 
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Peter Eckersley                            pde at eff.org
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Electronic Frontier Foundation    Fax  +1 415 436 9993