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tumpio / requestcontrol

A Firefox extension
https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/requestcontrol
Mozilla Public License 2.0
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Action "Secure" improvement request #120

Closed crssi closed 4 years ago

crssi commented 4 years ago

Is it possible to make failback to HTTP option, when using Secure action in case when the resource is not accesible over HTTPS?

Thank you and cheers

geekyi commented 4 years ago

FYI, I've been using this even before "secure" actions were introduced, with a "redirect" action in this addon, and with smart https to achieve for the specific feature.

Ocassionally, I may want to force enable it globally for testing, or to specific types of scenarios, so that's when I use requestcontrol(e.g. when website owners have misconfigured urls). In most of these cases optional fallback doesn't work since it's wrong in the first place..

Do you have any specific usecases that isn't covered by smarthttps?

geeknik commented 4 years ago

Do you have any specific usecases that isn't covered by smarthttps?

Not having to install multiple extensions to do the same job is a very specific use case I'm interested in.

tumpio commented 4 years ago

I added the Secure action, because I know some users may use the redirect action for upgrading http to https. Secure action should be used instead to let browser handle the upgrade correctly and not be blocked by CORS checks. Making it smarter by fall-back etc. might be quite much work. Don't expect it to be added any time soon if ever.

crssi commented 4 years ago

I think so too now. Soon almost everything will go secure, so no point to loose time on this one.