From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>, 27012@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27012: 26.0.50; eww does not generate Referer headers
Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 18:53:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3inksg7e1.fsf@stories> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u660gsalw3.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Mon, 22 May 2017 12:37:00 -0400")
Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
> You could look at how GNU Icecat handles this, eg
> network.http.referer.spoofSource. (I would guess every privacy issue eww
> might encounter has already been considered by Icecat.)
network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy
0 - always send referrer (default).
1 - only send if base domains match.
2 - only send if hosts match.
Adding something like this (and defaulting to 1) might make sense for
eww.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-22 16:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-21 21:41 bug#27012: 26.0.50; eww does not generate Referer headers Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-05-22 12:18 ` Richard Stallman
2017-05-22 12:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-05-22 16:37 ` Glenn Morris
2017-05-22 16:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2017-07-12 23:03 ` Peder O. Klingenberg
2017-07-13 7:16 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-07-13 14:02 ` Peder O. Klingenberg
2018-04-13 13:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-13 13:33 ` Peder O. Klingenberg
2018-04-13 13:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-05-23 0:54 ` Richard Stallman
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