On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, David Woolley wrote: > > That seems to be a very wrong approach, that makes developing lynx-friendly > > dynamic web sites much more difficult (thus making some webmasters totally > > It's a privacy issue. The normal use of this information is to find > out what search engine keywords sent you to a particular site, but it > could be used to gather rather more sensitive data entered into a form > on another site. Agreed, this is important when domains of the referrer and the requested URLs are different (it seems that I recall that there are settings in IE or Mozilla to prevent HTTP_REFERRER from being sent if domains of the referrer is different from requested URL). But when domains are the same - it would be better to send referrer IMHO. What everybody thinks about this? > > > forget about lynx-friendliness). Moreover, Mozilla, NN4.x and IE send > > HTTP_REFERRER for pages that are result of form submission via GET, unlike > > lynx. > > And a number of people then run proxies to take them out!
I won't be surprised if these proxies also allow to send referrer if its domain is the same as domain of the requested URL. Best regards, -Vlad ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
