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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: Fwd: Bug#1718: KFM browser doesn't send HTTP_REFERER to CGIs
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () suse ! de>
Date:       1999-08-16 8:43:30
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I find these HTTP_REFERER headers a bit privacy intrusive. 
We could make it so that if both the requesting URL and the requested
URL are on the same host, an HTTP_REFERER is send but I don't
want to send a HTTP_REFERER to a third party site.

Cheers,
Waldo

On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, David Faure wrote:
> 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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