With the recent appearance of the tool Firesheep being used for hijacking peoples cookies I noticed that a lot of people began installing tools in their browsers which forced connections to migrate from HTTP to HTTPS for certain web sites. One complaint was that these tools weren’t available for each and every browser they were using.

(Update: it seems that some of these browser plug-ins will actually allow an unsecured request to go out before the plug-in manages to rewrite the request. It seems that this problem is mostly tied to some sort of bug within Chrome. So that’s another reason to use a system wide proxy which gets it right from the very beginning instead.)

So I started thinking along the lines of building something on top of the ad blocker I’m using on my Mac – GlimmerBlocker.

So now you can add a subscription to the set of filter I’ve built by adding this URL: http://diktator.org/sslify.xml. For a description of how to add subscriptions to filters check out this page: http://glimmerblocker.org/wiki/Filters#Howtosubscribetoafilter.

It’s just a beginning (and probably reeks of ugly hack), so any additions would be welcome! Just comment on this post.

Enjoy!