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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon gorhill

Block redirects and let user choose whether to proceed or not

Open gorhill opened this issue 10 years ago • 2 comments

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One nice thing about RequestPolicy, to probably take inspiration from, is the overlay/popup when a redirect is about to happen but blocked. In RequestPolicy you can just press Alt+A (Cmd+A) to follow the redirect. This is nice for temporary or one-off ACCEPT of redirects like with sourceforge.net.

gorhill avatar Mar 06 '14 13:03 gorhill

this should be a nice feature enhancement. Websites like www.lenevo.com can be handled easily.

harshanvn avatar Mar 06 '14 23:03 harshanvn

Test case: http://evil.hackademix.net/hsb/

Context: http://forums.informaction.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=7020&sid=0cad8d593a2ad34a86fc9cb262d19c4b&start=30#p68784

Insight: the case here is less of an issue than it appears, given data uri in chromium-based browsers each have their own unique origin. Also, intercepting redirect is not a catch all solution given a data uri can also be used as a link for an <a> tag.

gorhill avatar Mar 30 '14 06:03 gorhill