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ParanoidAndroid

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Registered: 2012-10-14

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Force HTTPS without HTTPS Everywhere?

Hello all.

I'm using dwb as my preferred web browser, having become fed up with firefox. Being the paranoid, security-conscious person I am, I want to be able to force all my http connections to https, a feature found in the HTTPS Everywhere plugin for firefox. How can I get this behavior with dwb? Perhaps through privoxy? I read over every doc I could get my hands on, and found nothing I could use to that end. Can somebody point me in the right direction here? DuckDuckGo and Google have both failed me.

teateawhy

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Registered: 2012-03-05

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Re: Force HTTPS without HTTPS Everywhere?

Https everywhere is a misleading name, as it works on around 1400 web pages, but definitely not everywhere.
If you want to use https everywhere you can hack it into dwb ( it's opensource ) or use another browser like firefox or chrome, that already have these features.
If you like dwb you should have a look at luakit:
http://mason-larobina.github.io/luakit/

Last edited by teateawhy (2013-04-29 17:22:52)

ParanoidAndroid

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Registered: 2012-10-14

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Re: Force HTTPS without HTTPS Everywhere?

Sadly, I'm no coder. I've done a bit of screwing around with Python and I'm barely competent at basic C++. I know the principles, but hacking the code into dwb is way beyond my current ability. Would it be possible to somehow rewrite the http headers to https, perhaps with privoxy?

and I like dwb. I left firefox because it was an abomination of unnecessary bloatware. Luakit looks interesting, though I haven't the time to learn lua at the moment. Is it any faster than a webkit-based browser like dwb?

ub1quit33

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Registered: 2013-04-30

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Re: Force HTTPS without HTTPS Everywhere?

If you wanted to go a little crazy with it you could rig up a local webserver on your machine to act as an HTTP reverse proxy to the outside world, have it redirect all of your HTTP requests to HTTPS, and use a combination of iptables and routing rules to redirect all your outgoing HTTP traffic through the local webserver setup to reverse proxy, but it would be a lot easier to just use firefox or a browser which supports an existing plugin

Last edited by ub1quit33 (2013-04-30 04:47:09)