Re: extension for Firefox to force HTTPS always?

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:06:14 PDT, Kristian Erik Hermansen said:
> I just wanted to clarify that I am looking for an extension that will
> rewrite all encountered HTTP references in Firefox to HTTPS.  I would
> already have a firewall or some other layer7 filtering device blocking
> unencrypted traffic.  The addon "Better Gmail" does something similar
> to this, with the "force HTTPS" option, but not exactly...

What should this hypothetical extension do if it automagically redirects
http: to https:, but the target server is something that is only listening
on port 80 because it doesn't have https: enabled?

https://www.cnn.com just sorta sits there for me.

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