Firefox HTTPS Everywhere setting for SAB forums

[sander]

FYI: This might be useful for other who like their privacy:

Firefox has a plugin / extension "HTTPS Everywhere" (https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere) that will use HTTPS on websites for which the plugin is instructed to do so. The plugin comes with a big, built-in list of websites that speak HTTPS.
It is a good idea to use HTTPS so that others (on your LAN/WLAN, or other parties eavesdropping) cannot see what your doing on that website. Note that others can still the URL you're requesting, so if that contains personal information, that can still be seen.

The forums.sabnzbd.org does speak HTTPS, but is not in the list. Luckily you can add sites to the list. So I created this file:

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<ruleset name="Sabnzbd">
  <target host="forums.sabnzbd.org" />

  <rule from="^http://forums\.sabnzbd\.org/" to="https://forums.sabnzbd.org/"/>
</ruleset>

and I saved the file as "sabnzbd.xml" in the directory /home/sander/.mozilla/firefox/vbmzskxc.default/HTTPSEverywhereUserRules. This is the HTTPSEverywhere directory in my Firefox Profile directory. You have to find out the location of your profile directory (see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox )

I then restarted Firefox. When I now type in http://forums.sabnzbd.org/ , the plugin will redirect me to https://forums.sabnzbd.org/ , making it impossible to eavesdrop on the contents of the page (and thus what I type).
When I receive a "Topic reply notification" with a plain HTTP link, clicking on it will also lead me to the HTTPS link.

So: it works. :-)

Some remarks:
- after the above work, "Sabnzbd" appears in the HTTP Everywhere Preferences overview.
- Chrome does not offer this functionality.

HTH