From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#53281: 29.0.50; wishlist: eww should handle Referrer better Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2022 23:28:21 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87h7a5uulg.fsf@gnus.org> <87h79xp691.fsf@gnus.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="37444"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 53281@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 23 05:29:14 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nBUV8-0009VU-2d for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 23 Jan 2022 05:29:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40324 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nBUV7-000277-3k for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2022 23:29:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:34438) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nBUUw-00024N-JK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2022 23:29:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:45491) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nBUUw-0004yD-AA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2022 23:29:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1nBUUw-0003DB-82 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2022 23:29:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2022 04:29:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 53281 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: notabug Original-Received: via spool by 53281-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B53281.164291211012282 (code B ref 53281); Sun, 23 Jan 2022 04:29:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 53281) by debbugs.gnu.org; 23 Jan 2022 04:28:30 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38386 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1nBUUP-0003C1-SZ for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2022 23:28:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:33526) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1nBUUN-0003Bp-E8 for 53281@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2022 23:28:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=35992 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nBUUI-0004SI-6Q; Sat, 22 Jan 2022 23:28:22 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=f0tAo9u+9E0hwRxURHqI2bzPaxJUGf+bAJ26XoETsuE=; b=MYjRBdi1bRh+ 1DqmfXXQEEpWO34bxK0J+1dO5vKXtcopkEk2TdDHuALEJR9N3ETZBChPdGr9M4jxSON8pOOUVTtM0 XcQ7ThNgsgfmWkAPiMu11soTFSDIIH+cOQe0xY6qVzbbhdMsKsc/SQk3jrsfNVfgNSg8f6fvx91Ks 9dh5+CRCMn1DOsD9/KirZDZaw8PzfgQKpU3D16UoCYRJ/9x9inQWzU3/IAf60JoSBlUlvKlhYViu3 B9cw62VzNIDBjgPK488Rh6kOepqRfznALylY83XJHDaKcrCYhl+ABangAt2u/VOR5Y02D6aYlKz0u WOgLOCEnIBTEFjR6GeCulw==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nBUUH-0005Fc-M1; Sat, 22 Jan 2022 23:28:21 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87h79xp691.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Fri, 21 Jan 2022 14:28:58 +0100) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:224887 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Browsers are "supposed to" provide the referrer field "correctly", but that's not a good thing to do. The effect is to give web sites avoidable information about users' browsinge habits. Thus, it is better to do what Icecat does. I think that Icecat gives a "correct" referrer field when you navigate between pages in the same site, but gives a fake value when navigating between sites. I think the fake value may be the same site that you've navigated to. I think EWW should do what Icecat does. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)