[liberationtech] Do sheep need a sheperd: Firesheep report card and https search results

[Seth David Schoen]

Frank Corrigan writes:

> Does anyone know how to ensure that a https google search result also
> points to a https version of webcache.googleusercontent.com?

HTTPS Everywhere can do this.  You could try the current development
version released today.

https://www.eff.org/files/https-everywhere-0.2.3.development.2.xpi

> And whether
> there is a feasible way to automatically show by default a text on https
> version of a site via webcache.googleusercontent.com?

See the comment in
extensions/https-everywhere at eff.org/chrome/content/rules/GoogleAPIs.xml
inside your Firefox profile directory after installing HTTPS
Everywhere.  If you want this behavior, change

  <rule from="^http://webcache\.googleusercontent\.com/"
          to="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/"/>

in that file to

  <rule from="^http://webcache\.googleusercontent\.com/(.*)"
          to="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/$1&strip=1"/>

and let us know how it works for you!

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Seth Schoen
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