1585900 - Request for DNS over HTTPS WebExt API

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1455425

(WebExtensions :: Request Handling, enhancement)

Description

[ExpressVPN]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/77.0.3865.90 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

We’d like to request that Firefox implement an extension API to be able to get and set the following DNS over HTTPS related settings:

• Enable/Disable DNS over HTTPS
• Use custom DNS provider

We support the DNS over HTTPS initiative, however, we believe it would be better for users if they had the choice to use a service like ours end-to-end rather than having some of their private data sent off to a party with whom they haven't agreed to use.

If there's somewhere more appropriate we should make this request please let us know.

Thanks for your consideration.
—ExpressVPN

Comment 1

[Florencia Di Ciocco, NI to vbalducci]

Hi,

Firefox already has two ways to enable/disable doh procedure. Here's the link on how to do it: https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-enable-dns-over-https-doh-in-firefox/. Does this satisfy your request?

Regards, Flor.

Comment 2

[ExpressVPN]

When using ExpressVPN, our user's expectation is that their DNS is handled by us - i.e. they entrust their security and privacy with us. We're looking for an API so that we can detect when DNS is being sent to a 3rd party, inform the user and optionally fix the issue automatically for the user.

Without an API we will need to detect when DNS is being sent to a 3rd party provider and then instruct the user how to manually change the settings themselves. This is a poor user experience so we'd like to be able to handle all this automatically for the user and avoid them having to dig through the settings.

Comment 3

[Florencia Di Ciocco, NI to vbalducci]

I understand, thanks for the explanation. I've chosen a component for this bug so that the developers may look at it. We'll await their answer.

Comment 4

[Honza Bambas (:mayhemer)]

Moving to WebExt for decision and an API design.

Comment 5

[Luca Greco [:rpl] [:luca] [:lgreco]]

Added needinfo assigned to Philipp to ensure it is into his radar (to get his feedback from a product perspective).