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Add strict HTTPS setting, blocking HTTP requests #7356

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The-Compiler opened this issue Aug 22, 2022 · 1 comment
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Add strict HTTPS setting, blocking HTTP requests #7356

The-Compiler opened this issue Aug 22, 2022 · 1 comment
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priority: 1 - middle Issues which should be done at some point, but aren't that important.

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The-Compiler commented Aug 22, 2022

Inspired by #335, but more strict, and also probably easier to implement.

For a very basic implementation, any HTTP request (minus localhost I guess) could simply be redirected to the corresponding HTTPS page. If that request fails, the user would need to manually disable that setting, perhaps even per-domain.

A more sophisticated implementation would catch the error scenario (though not sure how easily this will be possible after the redirect...) and display some kind of confirmation page or prompt in qutebrowser, where the decision still can be overridden. Not sure to what degree we can do that, though.

Also see #6880.

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Another idea from https://www.reddit.com/r/qutebrowser/comments/w9x6be/https_everywhere_feature_in_qutebrowser/ is to keep connecting via HTTP (except probably for schemeless navigations, see #6880), but display a warning prompt before continuing.

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