Save As blocked when right-clicking links

[Tanath]

From Opera:

We checked the extension and it's working as expected. With it setting to block all request it's supposed to not show Save As dialog when right clicking on links. That's how this extension seems to be designed. IF you think it shouldn't block such requests please contact authors of this extensions on https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/issues and ask them for some workaround for this case.

Is there some reason I'm not aware of why it'd be a good idea to block Save As, or is this a bug?

[gorhill]

Requests of type other are used by the "Save as..." feature to download what you want to save. Hence you need to allow requests of type other for the hostname(s) from where the content is downloaded.

[Tanath]

I realize it currently falls into the other category. What reason might
there be for Save As to be blocked? Is there a risk? Why catch it at all?

On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Raymond Hill notifications@github.com
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Requests of type other are used by the "Save as..." feature to download
what you want to save. Hence you need to allow requests of type other for
the hostname(s) from which the content is downloaded.

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[gorhill]

HTTPSB doesn't block specifically "Save as". HTTPSB is a low-level utility to deal with net requests, it doesn't have knowledge of high-level features such as "Save as", and when it inspects net requests, there is no context information attached to the next requests for HTTPSB to know why these net requests are made.

[Tanath]

So I guess there's no way to make an exception for it then?

On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Raymond Hill notifications@github.com
wrote:

HTTPSB doesn't block specifically "Save as". HTTPSB is a low-level
utility to deal with net requests, it doesn't have knowledge of high-level
features such as "Save as", and when it inspects net requests, there is
no context information attached to the next requests for HTTPSB to know why
these net requests are made.

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[gorhill]

Aside whitelisting the other column, no.