[80305] in Cypherpunks
Re: referers and W3 (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Graves)
Sun May 18 20:49:15 1997
Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 17:12:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <337F9366.167E@netscape.com>
Reply-To: Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>
Yes, I'm aware of that. I don't think it's a good idea. If you don't agree
with the standard, work within the W3C to change it. Especially if it's an
undocumented cypherpunk-only feature, that bugs me.
-rich
On Sun, 18 May 1997, Tom Weinstein wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> You should only break rules of style if you can | Tom Weinstein
> coherently explain what you gain by so doing. | tomw@netscape.com
