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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Fwd: Bug#1718: KFM browser doesn't send HTTP_REFERER to CGIs
From:       David Faure <david.faure () insa-lyon ! fr>
Date:       1999-08-13 16:15:56
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Anybody working on kio_http might be interested in this.

----- Forwarded message from Harri Porten <porten@tu-harburg.de> -----

Subject: Bug#1718: KFM browser doesn't send HTTP_REFERER to CGIs
Date: 	Thu, 12 Aug 1999 17:30:08 +0200
From: Harri Porten <porten@tu-harburg.de>
To: 1718@max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de

wolf@unitel.spb.ru wrote:
> 
> Package: kfm
> Version: 1.1.1 (kde)
> 
> The browser in KFM doesn't set HTTP_REFERER env. variable, so some CGIs
> that
> are based on this fail. For ex., a graphical web hit counter that uses
> internal URL database can't determine from where the CGI program was
> called.
> 
> I suggest that KFM will send this, as Netscape and IE do.

If anyone ever implements that please make it optional (off by default).
I consider the missing variable to be a feature securing my privacy.

Harri.

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