Permissions

HTTP Switchboard ("HTTPSB") requires the following permissions to work properly:

"permissions": [
    "browsingData",
    "contentSettings",
    "cookies",
    "downloads",
    "storage",
    "tabs",
    "webNavigation",
    "webRequest",
    "webRequestBlocking",
    "http://*/*",
    "https://*/*"
],

• browsingData: to allow clearing the browser cache.
• contentSettings: to enable javascript for all web pages so that the HTTPSB can fully control execution of javascript using the Content-Security-Policy: script-src 'none' header directive.
• contextMenu: to insert HTTPSB often-used commands in the context menu.
• cookies: to allow the removal of blocked cookies.
• downloads: to allow backing up of data to user-selected files.
• storage: to store your own whitelist/blacklist domains/objects.
• tabs: to enable forcing a reload of the content of a tab (when the content of the whitelist/blacklist change), and to enable injecting code into a page which reports all <script>, <object> and <embed> tags used on the page.
• webNavigation: to listen to onBeforeNavigate events in order to set up HTTPSB's internal data structure for a specific web page.
• webRequest: to allow intercepting all requests in order to inspect them.
• webRequestBlocking: to be able to block a request if the object of the request is blacklisted.
• http://*/* & https://*/*: to be able to inspect HTTP net requests for all URLs (necessary in order to decide whether a block directive should be enforced).