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Whitelist all by default for a site you trust

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Raymond Hill edited this page Nov 26, 2013 · 14 revisions

There is a web site you trust completely and you just want to whitelist all by default on this web site, rather than hunting exactly for what should be whitelisted to make it work smoothly. I will use an example to demonstrate how to proceed to whitelist all by default for a site you trust (like, say, your bank).

Suppose I totally trust https://vimeo.com/ (it's just an example, I actually trust nothing), and I want to whitelist all by default for that site, that is, current web requests and whatever future web requests the site might make. So here it is:

This is what you would see normally using out-of-the-box permissions (aka rules) of HTTP Switchboard ("HTTPSP"):

Step 1

Now click the page-scope button in order to create permissions specific to this page (that would be the top-left button):

Step 2

The background of the pop-up menu become blueish: this means you are now in page-scope mode, that is, all rules created from now on while on this page will apply only to this web site (https://vimeo.com in our example).

Step 3

Now click the "all" cell in the matrix (the top-left one) to turn it dark green, which means "whitelist all" by default. All the cells in the matrix which do not have explicit permissions (whether allow or block) will toggle state according to the all cell. Don't forget to lock the cell.

Step 4

Now leave the pop-up menu and let the page reload. Reopen the pop-up menu and see that new web requests made by the page were not blocked. The only requests which are still blocked are the ones explicitly blacklisted.

Note the same can be done without going into per-page rules, but then this broad whitelisting would apply to every pages, not just the one you trust, hence the per-page permission feature.

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