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Re: Sending Referer [#144]

From: Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:13:37 +0200
To: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Message-Id: <1244848417.9699.5.camel@localhost.localdomain>
mån 2009-06-01 klockan 14:11 -0700 skrev Adam Barth:

> As things stand, the document forbids user agents from always sending
> the Referer header, preventing a browser-specific specification from
> requiring this behavior.

Browser specification in this case should be in the lines of "If the
request was intitiated by reference from another object with a known URI
then the Referer header SHOULD be sent indicating the URI of the
referencing resource."

Regards
Henrik
Received on Friday, 12 June 2009 23:14:10 UTC

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