Re: referers and W3 (fwd)

[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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