Bypass proxy when extension is installed

[markijbema]

I propose adding a header using the extensions, for instance, for Chrome, see:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/12962124/623827

Then in the proxy, when this header is set, we can redirect, just like we do with publishers:

https://github.com/Factlink/web-proxy/blob/master/lib/redirect_if_publisher.rb

[EamonNerbonne]

This will require browser-specific changes to the extensions.

If so, I'd prefer doing the redirect/url-rewrite directly in the extension since that's faster.

[markijbema]

That will require browser specific changes as well, right? And this will be a lot easier, and require no factlink-specific code, other than (possibly) the knowledge of the location of the proxies. When doing it ourselves, we need to copy the parsing logic from the proxy to the extensions as well for instance.

[markijbema]

(also, the entire code for chrome needed is already in that answer)

[EamonNerbonne]

parsing logic? We just need to rewrite the url to the value of the 'url' query-parameter, right?
e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10256922/is-it-possible-to-rewrite-url-with-extra-parameters-with-a-chrome-extension

[markijbema]

As long as we create urls that way.

[EamonNerbonne]

Still, there's a speed+complexity difference since doing it in the extension avoids a redirect and is about as hard as adding headers yet obviates the need for proxy logic. Furthermore, the way urls are formatted is already a cross-project api as core creates em and proxy consumes them.