Bug #955
openI2P is not recognized as a valid top-level domain by Android's Patterns.WEB_URL
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Description
Proxy - i2p, Tor
Tor - If a web address is w/o prefix 'http:// or https://' PB redirects automatically to 'https://'.
It should remain 'http://'.
i2p -
1. Using i2pd with 'I2p proxy', PB shows the alert that there is no i2p app. i2pd is the i2p client which fully implements all I2P APIs.
https://geti2p.net/en/about/alternative-clients
I recommend that i2pd should be recognised by PB as i2p app.
2. Using 'I2p proxy' or 'custom proxy' as advised here https://www.stoutner.com/proxy-syntax/, if you use a web address w/o prefix 'http:// or https://' PB tries to connect with a search engine via i2p outproxy. PB should try to connect with the provided address using default prefix 'http://'
Updated by Soren Stoutner almost 2 years ago
- Subject changed from Proxy - i2p, Tor to Consider defaulting to http:// instead of https://
- Status changed from New to Feedback
- Assignee set to Soren Stoutner
Please file a separate bug report for each subject.
By choice, Privacy Browser only detects the official Orbot and I2P apps. I think it is highly unlikely I would try to detect all the many third-party solutions. That is what the custom entry is for. But if you would like to discuss it further I suggest you create a separate issue or do a search for one of the existing places on Redmine where it has been discussed, like #895, and add your comments there.
Regarding the defaulting to http:// instead of https://, for security and privacy reasons, Privacy Browser will always default to https://. If a user needs or wants http://, they should always have to type it manually as a reminder that it is not secure. Tor users like to assert that https:// isn't needed with .onion addresses because the encryption is handled by the Tor protocol. But Tor has a long history of being hacked and having problems with their protocols and the implementations thereof, so I don't trust that assertion. I would much rather trust https:// encryption that terminates in the browser than solely rely on Tor's encryption.
Updated by Soren Stoutner almost 2 years ago
- Subject changed from Consider defaulting to http:// instead of https:// to Problems with searching instead of loading a URL
Regarding Privacy Browser searching instead of loading a URL when using I2P, I cannot replicate that problem. Can you please post an example URL that causes the problem for you?
Before doing so, you might consider reading over #938 first, to make sure that you are actually entering a URL instead of something that is not a URL.
Updated by Kooh2 Kooh2 almost 2 years ago
- I have "Search custom URL" - 4n53nafyi77iplnbrpmxnp3x4exbswwxigujaxy3b37fvr7bvlopxeyd.onion/search?q= - My regular web browsing is mostly over Tor proxy.
- I change Proxy to I2P
- I try to open a web address - zzz.i2p
- PP gives the output- Proxy error: Outproxy failure
Host 4n53nafyi77iplnbrpmxnp3x4exbswwxigujaxy3b37fvr7bvlopxeyd.onion not inside I2P network, but outproxy is not enabled
- The address: http://4n53nafyi77iplnbrpmxnp3x4exbswwxigujaxy3b37fvr7bvlopxeyd.onion/search?q=zzz.i2p
As I wrote PP can't recognise the address zzz.i2p and tries to find a query via search engine.
Updated by Kooh2 Kooh2 almost 2 years ago
If I use the address with a prefix "http://" PP loads the site correctly.
Updated by Soren Stoutner almost 2 years ago
- Subject changed from Problems with searching instead of loading a URL to I2P is not recognized as a valid top-level domain by Android's Patterns.WEB_URL
- Status changed from Feedback to In Progress
Privacy Browser uses Android's Patterns.WEB_URL to check for text that is not a URL to see if it is similar enough to a URL to be modified to become a URL instead of performing a search.
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/util/Patterns#WEB_URL
`zzz.i2p` is, of course, not a URL because it does not contain a scheme.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL
It looks like Android's Patterns.WEB_URL isn't smart enough to determine that partial URLs that end in `i2p` could be converted to a URL if prepended by a scheme.
I have created an upstream bug asking Google to fix the problem.
Updated by Soren Stoutner 29 days ago
Google automatically closed the bug report (which they do when they are too lazy to look at it) and suggested I create another bug report if it was important, which I have done:
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/377339185
Anyone who would like Google to take this issue more seriously can go vote for the bug.