Greetings. On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:50:02 +0100 Hiltjo Posthuma <hil...@codemadness.org> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Nick <suckless-...@njw.me.uk> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 05:22:01PM +0100, Hiltjo Posthuma wrote: > > > >> For privacy reasons it's probably best to only pass the referrer > >> if the target download uri is from the same site. > > > > Not sure about this. We happily pass the referrer around everywhere > > else. Privoxy allows referrer stripping (and I have used it for > > that), I'd be inclined to keep such stuff away from the browser > > itself. And some sites would no doubt care about referrer, but be on > > a different domain (edge / cloud / mirror / whatever they're called). > > > > Yeah, thinking about this some more I agree. Besides, you can compare > the referrer and download uri anyway in a wrapper download script. So > surf shouldnt need to check this.
Anyone has done the wget/curl scripts together to handle referer, cook‐ ies and whatever else is needed to fool websites, so it could be used in surf? Such a script would be useful for other not‐surf‐related downloads. Sincerely, Christoph Lohmann