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RequestPolicy is a Firefox extension that gives you control over cross-site requests. --- Be sure to look at the dev-1.0 branch as that's where all of the interesting work is happening. See also: https://www.requestpolicy.com/1.0.html
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GUI does not show all blocked requests #156

Open jsamuel opened 12 years ago

jsamuel commented 12 years ago 
imported trac ticket
created: 2011-01-16 21:13:31
reporter: eibwen

From what I recall of the source, the GUI lists of (blocked?) cross-site requests are guessed from the source of the page (eg src attributes); however, other requests are also possible.

For example, a greasemonkey userscript to parse a page and redirect to another domain will silently fail. The cause turned out to be that this was considered a cross-site request and shouldLoad() blocked, but there was no GUI indication.

After manually adding the domain as an allowed cross-site request, all worked as expected. Nevertheless, this behavior is particularly counter-intuitive and the list of blocked requests is incomplete...

DavidJCobb commented 12 years ago

This also seems to affect any requests made by a page after it's finished loading, so AJAX-heavy pages, complicated redirects (i.e. Windows LIVE integration on sites), and pretty much any resource loaded by a page contained in an IFRAME -- these all tend to be missing from RP's UI.