Enforce facebook chat through SSL

Hello,

since a few days facebook is supporting SSL for the chat. The problem is that it can't be enabled.

Until facebook enables this you can use the SSLGuard plugin for firefox, which enforces SSL for a list of web sites, including all facebook pages and the chat as well.

We have some good ideas for sslguard that we'd like to get in for the next releases... stay tuned.

Base64 and Quoted-Printable GConverters for GMua

Hello,

lately I'm writing GMua for educational purposes and for evaluating Vala, whose purpose is to simplify writing Mail User Agents or simple scripts, ala Java Mail.

It currently parses IMAP (not yet complete) and has a graphical interface called Gutt (yes, inspired by Mutt) for testing.

In order to parse MIME parts with base64 or quopri content-transfer-encoding I chose to implement a couple of GConverter (will use GMime a day, maybe when they switch to gio, not yet needed) in Vala that you can find here:

• Base64 GConverter
• Quoted-Printable GConverter

I'm pretty sure there are bugs in these converters, by the way I wanted to share them :)

Idea duplicated again

Hello,
I'd like to point you to this firefox extension HTTPS Everywhere (June 17th, 2010) and SSLGuard which is also a firefox extension (first released Oct 14th, 2009).

The code of the former extension is a lot more complicated and the result is not always quite the same as SSLGuard. In fact, while they support secure cookies and per-website custom rules, SSLGuard lets you add custom websites to be secured directly from a friendly graphical dialog.

You could even install both of them, apparently they don't conflict.

It's the second time decrew ideas are being duplicated. This happened sometimes ago with SSLtoHTML (ettercap plugin) and sslstrip (standalone application), but they released the code before us. Funny isn't it?

I'm not complaining about anything (I'm not saying "copy", I say "duplicate"), just clearing things out. Of course, better have more choice and more works.