NewsFox: redirected feeds blocked and not saved

[jsamuel]

imported trac ticket
created: 2009-06-21 17:59:42
reporter: justin

Cross-site redirected feeds are not only blocked but may not even be retained by !NewsFox if it cannot retrieve them. Additionally, some content (e.g. images) of feeds is blocked because the requests have the origin of "about:blank".

[jsamuel]

imported trac comment
created: 2009-06-21 18:00:47
author: justin

Currently !RequestPolicy detects the presence of !NewsFox and adds a conflict warning in the menu.

[jsamuel]

imported trac comment
created: 2009-06-21 21:38:56
author: justin

Brian Piper mentioned the following by email:

I am a !NewsFox user and the conflict between the two is a problem. I have read the "Conflicts with other extensions" section on your website and the Workaround suggested seems inadequate; white listing every single feed is only feasible if you have a small number of feeds. I would like to make a few suggestions/comments.

1. in the Request Log the Origin is listed as about:blank. I tried white listing this but it did not work. It would be nice if this worked, however, about:blank may be too broad an exception.

2. the context menu in the statusbar provides options to allow and temporarily allow all requests from !NewsFox. It is very annoying to be provided with an option that does not work. If these functions are not available then perhaps you should disable these items.

3. If white listing every single feed is the only solution then it would be very convenient if a context menu was provided in the Request Log to add the selection to the Destinations white list or at the very least to copy the url to the clipboard.

[ghost]

Hi, i too am using request policy and newsfox.

Some feeds such as google news and feedburner give Moved temporarily and i have to manually allow each of those requests.

Also, some youtube feeds don't show images.

I tried allowing the destination gdata.youtube.com, as that's where the images come from, but it doesn't work.

So, have you found some solution to the conflict?

EDIT: I solved the youtube images issue by allowing destination ytimg.com (it wasn't gdata.youtube.com). But the redirecting feeds problem still remains.