[HTTPS-Everywhere] HTTPS Everywhere for Internet Explorer

[Gaurav .]

I don’t know what “new Windows 8 APIs” you’re referring to. No APIs have been added-- the APIs I’m describing have existed since IE5.
 > Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 08:23:08 -0800
> From: pde at eff.org
> To: gauravkale at vista.aero
> CC: https-everywhere at eff.org
> Subject: Re: [HTTPS-Everywhere] HTTPS Everywhere for Internet Explorer
> 
> These new Windows 8 APIs look superficially promising.  What we should check:
> 
> - Does this callback cover all of the possible request types? (Not just
>   navigation but XML HTTP Requests and other things loaded from JS, favicons,
>   etc)
> 
> - Can we modify the request once we have a callback about it, in such away
>   that the original requesting code gets the response from the https request?
> 
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 10:39:56AM +0530, Gaurav . wrote:
> > 
> > I’m not sure what "secure request rewriting" feature you mean here, but for IE, it’s absolutely possible for a BHO to rewrite a navigation URL from HTTP to HTTPS if it wants. The OnBeforeNavigate2 event is the one typically used for that purpose. 		 	   		  
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