[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Handling of HTTPS Everywhere updates

[Dmitry Smirnov]

On Fri, 31 May 2013 12:33:29 Paul Wise wrote:
> I always wondered why the plugin was bundled with a snapshot of data
> that by definition is continuously changing. Would it not be better
> for the plugin to ship with a snapshot of data and then automatically
> update it as needed? Or push this out into DNS or something else.

I'm with you Paul as indeed separating volatile data and the plugin
code makes perfect sense. 

I doubt the importance of receiving frequent updates to
"https-everywhere". Surely I do not visit most of the eleven thousand
web sites covered by its rules and for small subset of those web sites
that I visit I'm not sure if I would welcome any sudden and unexpected
changes introduced by update.

There is a lovely "https-everywhere" companion plugin maintained by
yours truly: "https-finder". It probes any web site for HTTPS and
allows one to easily create a rule for "https-everywhere". So I can
control whenever I want HTTPS by default on the sites that I visit
often and for other web sites there is an automatic HTTPS detection
which IMHO makes frequent updates to "https-everywhere" not that
important as long as the latter is accompanied by "https-finder".

Cheers,
 Dmitry Smirnov
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