Use about URI scheme about stealth HOT 1 CLOSED

While I like the idea of supporting the about: scheme for migrating users, I don't like where the scheme is going because the standardized part behind it is somewhat a joke and everything is still custom across all Browsers.

The problem with the about: scheme is that they basically exist for blank documents and cross-origin-resource-sharing aspects of e.g. iframes. While they make sense in the context of a native browser that renders its own iframe implementations; I don't think that they would make sense in Stealth, as the iframe always points to a document that is being served by the node.js service.

The problem I additionally have with about: is the potential fuckups when URIs are mapped to stealth pages and are forgotten later. They are strictly a UI feature, so they are hard to test (if even possible).

The only about pages that would make sense (somewhat) are these:

• about:blank -> pointing to empty iframe.
• about:invalid -> pointing to stealth:fix-request but without a URL, so wouldn't make sense (don't want to go the Referer history route due to privacy concerns).
• about:cache -> pointing to stealth:cache.

... as this is missing all the fix-wizards for specific use cases I don't see the point in implementing it at the moment.

I think considering something like a UI overlay that guides the user to find the "internal page" they want to via e.g. a search overlay would make more sense; similar to what pressing 3 times ESCAPE in a row does.

from stealth.