[HTTPS-Everywhere] Automatic testing of rules to discover rules that broke (e.g. by site redesign)

[Greg Lindahl]

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 06:26:58PM -0400, Colonel Graff wrote:

> Well, my concern would be that these websites might start to realize
> that every night they're getting the same request from the same IP
> addresses and get suspicious. We obviously can send user-agent
> information along with this to identify the script for people, but
> even then, it might result in suspicious system administrators
> IP-blocking the script.

I've been running such verifiers for years, and this hasn't been a
problem for me. There are a modest number of sites for which you'll
have to use a Firefox UA, as they have a UA whitelist.

-- greg