[80304] in Cypherpunks
Re: referers and W3 (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Weinstein)
Sun May 18 20:15:11 1997
Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 16:40:22 -0700
From: Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com>
To: Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com>
Rich Graves wrote:
>
> A friend who webmasters a large site that is implementing
> referer-specific content sent me this when I mentioned the
> cpunks/cryptography thread of a few months back. I basically agree
> with the W3C. While user education on the potential privacy threat is
> essential, I do not believe that Netscape should violate published
> technical standards. There are also privacy and property issues from
> the server's perspective.
Just in case someone hasn't heard about this yet, we support a stealth
preference in 4.0 to turn of referer headers. If you wish to disable
referer, you can place the following line in your prefs.js file:
pref("network.sendRefererHeader", false);
There is no UI checkbox for this preference because it was added after
we froze the UI.
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