[HTTPS-Everywhere] persistent user-generated rules

[Vijay P]

On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 11:39 PM, Vijay P <vijayp at qwsrt.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm a huge fan of the EFF and  HTTPS Everywhere extension!
>
> The one feature I felt it really needed was the ability for users to add
> arbitrary rules, and to have those rules persistent across restarts, and
> the ability for the users to submit rules to the EFF so that the extension
> can be updated more frequently.
>
> I've put together a change that is a partial implementation of this
> feature, you can build it by checking out my branch below. I'd love
> comments and/or suggestions before I go too far down the path of
> implementation. Stuff in "what's missing" still has to be implemented, but
> it should be functional as is.
>
> What it does:
> - enables the httpseverywhere action icon thing on _all_ https pages
> - when on an https page, allows you to create a rule for that host. It
> pre-fills the matching regex and redirect-to fields with sane defaults.
>
>
> What's missing:
> - cookie rules, and exceptions are unimplemented
> - you can't edit or delete rules (but disabling them works).
> - there is no way to upload these rules (not sure how you guys want to
> handle that; I'd probably use a GAE endpoint, but you guys might have
> thoughts about this)
>
> Future work?
> - my changelist uses java objects
>
Uh, I (obviously) meant javascript objects



>  to send and persist rules on the extension. Perhaps we should change the
> XML structure to using JSON and match the object format used by user rules
> at some point? Jacob Hoffman-Andrews (we used to work together at Google a
> long time ago) mentioned that there was discussion on this list about this
> topic before I joined, and I'd be happy to help with that if people would
> find it useful.
>
>
>
> https://github.com/vijayp/https-everywhere/compare/vijayp.add-persistent-user-rules
> --
> Vijay Pandurangan
> vijayp at vijayp.ca
> twitter:@vijayp
> www.vijayp.ca
> www.mitro.co
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