On 08/23/2016 05:35 PM, Christoph Hormann wrote:
If you turn off referrer transmission w.r.t. tiles the only effect this has is it prevents the tile provider from knowing what website you were requesting the tiles from.
For me the reason for disabling Referrer at all has nothing to do with "tile providers". I just don't want this "feature" at all. With every click on every website, the linked website knows where I clicked the link. In my opinion such a "feature" should have never got HTTP standard! Noone needs to know where I came from when browsing the web!
In case of non-free tile providers by the way use of API keys and tokens means the website is known to the tile provider even without a referrer.
No problem. It doesn't force me to have Referrer active so regular clicks on websites don't forward information where the click happened. So if possible, just allow optionally passing of a API key or just a "website name" as a parameter to the PNG files.
If tile loading starts to suck without enabled Referrer, I would just install a referrer spoofing addon to spoof any call to the tile server from my webbrowser to always show like it was loaded from openstreetmap.org --> problem solved and I don't have to enable Referrer globally.
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