Re: addendum: broken links into validator

Christopher Abbey wrote:
> I should point out that the linkage only seems to be busted when
> coming from an httpS url such as:
> https://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/jikes/ I hadn't noticed
> that originally. 

Quoting Liam Quinn:

The HTTP/1.1 spec says:

   Clients SHOULD NOT include a Referer header field in a (non-secure)
   HTTP request if the referring page was transferred with a secure
   protocol.

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec15.html#sec15.1.3

Best regards,

Ari Sundholm
megari@freedb.org

Received on Friday, 27 June 2003 06:25:51 UTC