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Block ETag tracking on outgoing request, instead of incoming response

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This change more directly addresses the privacy concern where servers can identify whether a given client has previously downloaded some content. This tracking occurs when a request for an already-cached resource is sent to the server with an `If-None-Match` header. If the cached resource was previously received with a unique `ETag`, the server can uniquely identify the user. Rather than blocking the client from reading `ETag` values (which may be safely be used for other purposes; see #177), this change prevents servers from being informed about whether the client has any cached content.

Fixes #177.
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Brian Helba
2022-06-02 21:24:53 -04:00
committed by Kevin R
parent 82d987a08e
commit 783f1fc99a
1 changed files with 10 additions and 9 deletions
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core_js/eTagFilter.js
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@@ -19,28 +19,29 @@
/*jshint esversion: 6 */
/**
* Filters eTag headers from web requests.
* Filters headers containing eTag values from web requests.
*/
function eTagFilter(requestDetails) {
if(!requestDetails.responseHeaders || !storage.eTagFiltering
if(!requestDetails.requestHeaders || !storage.eTagFiltering
|| storage.localHostsSkipping && checkLocalURL(new URL(requestDetails.url))) return {};
const responseHeaders = requestDetails.responseHeaders;
const requestHeaders = requestDetails.requestHeaders;
const filteredHeaders = responseHeaders.filter(header => {
return header.name.toLowerCase() !== "etag";
const filteredHeaders = requestHeaders.filter(header => {
// Browsers may automatically send an If-None-Match header with
return header.name.toLowerCase() !== "if-none-match";
});
if(filteredHeaders.length < responseHeaders.length) {
if(filteredHeaders.length < requestHeaders.length) {
pushToLog(requestDetails.url, requestDetails.url, translate("eTag_filtering_log"));
increaseBadged(false, requestDetails);
increaseGlobalURLCounter(1);
return {responseHeaders: filteredHeaders};
return {requestHeaders: filteredHeaders};
}
}
browser.webRequest.onHeadersReceived.addListener(
browser.webRequest.onBeforeSendHeaders.addListener(
eTagFilter,
{urls: ["<all_urls>"]},
["blocking", "responseHeaders"]
["blocking", "requestHeaders"]
);