missing referer when fetching images inside webpages..?

[Henrik Gemal]

Why dont Mozilla sent the "referer" when fetching a image in a webpage?

I made a small html page that only contained a img tag. This resulted in the
following access log:

With Mozilla
fw-ost.inet.tele.dk - - [03/May/2001:10:59:03 +0200] "GET /test/1.html HTTP/1.1" 200 50 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.8.1+) Gecko/20010502"

fw-ost.inet.tele.dk - - [03/May/2001:10:59:04 +0200] "GET /test/img.jpg HTTP/1.1" 200 3702 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.8.1+) Gecko/20010502"

With Internet Explorer

fw-ost.inet.tele.dk - - [03/May/2001:10:59:30 +0200] "GET /test/1.html HTTP/1.1" 200 50 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)"

fw-ost.inet.tele.dk - - [03/May/2001:10:59:30 +0200] "GET /test/img.jpg HTTP/1.1" 200 3702 "http://gemal.dk/test/1.html" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)"

What's important here is the missing referer "http://gemal.dk/test/1.html"
from
the request to the image when using Mozilla. Some servers will only
let the image get shown if the referer is from the same site.
Some of the troubled sites are in:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76723
but be aware: porn...
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Henrik Gemal, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Webmail Evangelist
TDC Internet
http://card.gemal.dk