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posted by janrinok on Monday August 23 2021, @11:59PM   Printer-friendly

https://therecord.media/firefox-follows-chrome-and-prepares-to-block-insecure-downloads/

Mozilla developers are putting the finishing touches on a new feature that will block insecure file downloads in Firefox.

Called mixed content downloaded blocking, the feature works by blocking files downloads initiated from an encrypted HTTPS page but which actually take place via an unencrypted HTTP channel.

The idea behind this feature is to prevent Firefox users from getting misled by the URL bar and think they're downloading a file securely via HTTPS when, in reality, the file could be tampered with by third parties while in transit.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Tuesday August 24 2021, @06:00AM (4 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday August 24 2021, @06:00AM (#1170168) Journal

    wget/curl when your firefox is gonna have this restriction.
    Worked before, it will continue to work in the future.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 24 2021, @02:56PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 24 2021, @02:56PM (#1170342)

    Try doing a file download in powershell without searching for an answer.

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 24 2021, @05:09PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 24 2021, @05:09PM (#1170396)

      Does Linux come with Powershell now?

      • (Score: 2) by DeVilla on Sunday August 29 2021, @01:03AM

        by DeVilla (5354) on Sunday August 29 2021, @01:03AM (#1171910)

        I believe in this example, the Linux host was the one in need of a wifi package to correct the network problem.

        To answer you question, I believe power shell is available for Linux, but I don't know of a distribution that ships with it. I wouldn't be surprised if available in Ubuntu in a repo or some "software store" app.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 27 2021, @09:31AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 27 2021, @09:31AM (#1171371)

      Invoke-WebRequest http://example.com/ [example.com]