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cadeyrn
FR: Add HTTPS checking
Your extension is perfect for adding HTTPS checking.
By HTTPS checking, I mean checking each bookmark to see if an SSL/TLS page is available.
This will be very valuable.
The only challenge will be to see if the page loads properly with HTTPS. Some sites, when switching to HTTPS from HTTP, are missing images, CSS, or other content. I can provide a couple examples if desired.
+1. I was just investigating how one might go about achieving this and figured the "Smart HTTPS" add-on combined with Bookmarks Organizer's redirect functionality might do the trick, but I ultimately got bitten by #23 and had to bail. A built-in HTTPS checker that solves the missing content issue @Gitoffthelawn notes, which I fully expected to run into using my method, would be even better.
I'd also like to see HTTPS checking. A lot of sites are turning up as "broken" (errors) when in fact the only thing about them that's changed is that the site now uses "https://" instead of "http://", and Bookmarks Organizer doesn't seem to catch this sort of redirect. For example, I have "http://www.intel.com" bookmarked, and BO flags it as "error", but if I open that URL directly in Firefox, the site just redirects to "https://www.intel.com".
Bookmarks Organizer does not mark redirects as errors / broken but as warnings. The marking of redirects as warning is intentional. Redirects from HTTP to HTTPS are not different than every other redirect. All redirects are marked as warnings.
@cadeyrn This thread got a little misdirected. My suggestion in the top-post of this thread is to intentionally check to see if an equivalent HTTPS page is available for HTTP bookmarks (not only if a redirect is requested).
+1 on this, and attempting to up the priority of this old request. I just loaded the addon and ran on over 3000 bookmarks. About 30% of them have warnings and about 70% of those are simple http/httpS warnings due to major changes over recent years. That leaves me with about 700 links with this simple proiblem.
I can manually fix all of those : Export as html, edit the HTML with Sublime and use regex to carefully change all of the correct http to httpS, Import, then re-run the check.
But to come back to the original request here, it would be ideal if this addon offered a mass auto-change just for that specific case: if the page is http leads to a warning or error and httpS is successful. Thanks.
My suggestion in the top-post of this thread is to intentionally check to see if an equivalent HTTPS page is available for HTTP bookmarks (not only if a redirect is requested).
I think if you enable the "HTTPS only" mode it will do exactly that (directly or via Bookmarks Organizer).
The remaining pb with the "HTTPS only" mode is when a bookmark has HTTP but not HTTPS working : Bookmarks Organizer reports an error whereas it should not. Do you know if there is a workaround for that ?
The remaining pb with the "HTTPS only" mode is when a bookmark has HTTP but not HTTPS working : Bookmarks Organizer reports an error whereas it should not.
Do you have an example URL?
The remaining pb with the "HTTPS only" mode is when a bookmark has HTTP but not HTTPS working : Bookmarks Organizer reports an error whereas it should not.
Do you have an example URL?
http://www.ada-auth.org/
IMHO the best behavior would be to ignore the HTTPS error an to report the HTTP state instead, regardless of which state it is.