Browser.safebrowsing.provider.*.gethashURL

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The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is browser.safebrowsing.provider.*.gethashURL.

This article describes the preference browser.safebrowsing.provider.*.gethashURL. To add, delete, or modify this preference, you will need to edit your configuration — do not edit this article.

1 Background
2 Possible values and their effects
3 Caveats
4 First checked in
5 Has an effect in
6 Related bugs
7 Related preferences
8 External links

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Background

Firefox incorporates the Google Safe Browsing extension in its own Phishing Protection feature to detect and warn users of phishy web sites.

When a site is classified as safe or unsafe, a partial hash is generated of a fragment of the URL. This can be compared against the remote database to return a complete hash and extra metadata. This preference determines the URL used to submit the partial hash.

This is an enumerated preference: all preferences whose names start with browser.safebrowsing.provider. are read to generate the list of Safe Browsing providers. The * in the preference name is a non-negative integer, and matches the number in the other preferences needed to describe a provider. It also determines the order in which the providers appear in the options dialog.

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Possible values and their effects

The URL from which the key for encrypting URLs is retrieved.

By default, the following preference and value exists:

browser.safebrowsing.provider.0.gethashURL: http://sb.google.com/safebrowsing/gethash?client={moz:client}&appver={moz:version}&pver=2.1

(The string {moz:client} is replaced by 'navclient-auto-ffox' plus the version number for official builds. The string {moz:version} is replaced by the browser’s version of Gecko.)

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