Trusting the "localhost" site doesn't work

[gdoron]

Description

I trust localhost:3000, getting OK green color. Refresh the page and my resources are back on blocked.

Versions

• Browser: 78.0.3904.87
• OS: MacOS

[christophertino]

It looks like the port number is messing up the whitelist URL matching. It seems to work fine with just localhost. I'll get a bug ticket made up for this.

As a suggestion to help in the meantime, you could set up Apache locally with a Reverse Proxy and give your application a test URL instead of localhost.

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "PATH/TO/PROJECT"
    ProxyPass / http://localhost:3000/
    ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:3000/
    ServerName yourdevsite.test
</VirtualHost>

[gdoron]

If you can point me to the regrex place, I'll try to fix it and open a PR.
@christophertino

[christophertino]

Thanks for the offer! Take a look at checkSiteWhitelist here

ghostery-extension/src/classes/Policy.js

Line 64 in 7a2d708

checkSiteWhitelist(url) {

I'm guessing the url parser in that function (processUrl) doesn't like localhost.

[EoinGriffin-AI]

As a workaround until the bug is fixed, as long as you know the port number it's possible to manually enter that into the settings:

[Haraldson]

@EoinGriffin-AI Where’s this setting now? Or does it only apply for the Plus version?

Edit: Never mind, apparently there are two separate setting panels 🙄