Block redirects and let user choose whether to proceed or not

gorhill / httpswitchboard

Point & click to forbid/allow any class of requests made by your browser. Use it to block scripts, iframes, ads, facebook, etc.

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Block redirects and let user choose whether to proceed or not #200

Open gorhill opened 10 years ago

gorhill commented 10 years ago

Suggested through email:

One nice thing about RequestPolicy, to probably take inspiration from, is the overlay/popup when a redirect is about to happen but blocked. In RequestPolicy you can just press Alt+A (Cmd+A) to follow the redirect. This is nice for temporary or one-off ACCEPT of redirects like with sourceforge.net.

harshanvn commented 10 years ago

this should be a nice feature enhancement. Websites like www.lenevo.com can be handled easily.

gorhill commented 10 years ago

Test case: http://evil.hackademix.net/hsb/

Context: http://forums.informaction.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=7020&sid=0cad8d593a2ad34a86fc9cb262d19c4b&start=30#p68784

Insight: the case here is less of an issue than it appears, given data uri in chromium-based browsers each have their own unique origin. Also, intercepting redirect is not a catch all solution given a data uri can also be used as a link for an <a> tag.