Re: SSL only firefox add-on?

[Scott Bennett <bennett@xxxxxxxxxx>]

     On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:47:44 +0000 judaiko judaiko <siriu81ysw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>Let me say this first:
>
>One company had a firewall that blocked all non SSL traffic.
>
>So if you go https://mail.google.com and you sign in, it will stop you
>at one URL which was not https.
>
>I am not sure if Gmail still does this i.e. redirect you to non https
>(http) url after login, and then again go into https mode when you
>enter gmail.
>
>So this firewall used to give error saying not allowed, but when you
>changed it to https, the previous Gmail redirect url worked, and I
>could login to Gmail.
>
>Now is there an add-on that does this in Firefox?

     As noted previously:
	1) Firefox should not be used without NoScript, and
	2) NoScript allows the user to specify sites for which it will
	   force the use of HTTPS.
>
>Block ALL http traffic by default?
>
>Then maybe like how Adblock plus is - "Disable on this page only"
>allows http traffic only for that page?

     AFAIK, NoScript doesn't discriminate among individual pages, only
by host+domainname.  It does allow the use of wildcards in the names.


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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