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Re: Include Referer-HTTP-header in requests from XMLHttpRequests

From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:10:57 -0400
Message-ID: <c70bc85d0606291410p3a661043j524f9396330e9191@mail.gmail.com>
To: "Mark Nottingham" <mnot@yahoo-inc.com>
Cc: "Subbu Allamaraju" <subbu.allamaraju@gmail.com>, public-webapi@w3.org 

On 6/29/06, Mark Nottingham <mnot@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
> See my previous message; the whole point is that Referer is *not*
> under the control of the author, but instead automatically generated
> based on the user's context.

I understand, but I don't see it as a large burden to ask that authors do this;

    r.setRequestHeader( "Referer", this.location.href );

Mark.
Received on Thursday, 29 June 2006 21:11:11 GMT

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