From: Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com>
Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 07:55:22 +0800
To: Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: referers and W3 (fwd)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GUL.3.95.970512081613.25461B-100000@Networking.Stanford.EDU>
Message-ID: <337F9366.167E@netscape.com>
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Rich Graves wrote:
> 
> A friend who webmasters a large site that is implementing
> referer-specific content sent me this when I mentioned the
> cpunks/cryptography thread of a few months back. I basically agree
> with the W3C. While user education on the potential privacy threat is
> essential, I do not believe that Netscape should violate published
> technical standards. There are also privacy and property issues from
> the server's perspective.

Just in case someone hasn't heard about this yet, we support a stealth
preference in 4.0 to turn of referer headers.  If you wish to disable
referer, you can place the following line in your prefs.js file:

pref("network.sendRefererHeader", false);

There is no UI checkbox for this preference because it was added after
we froze the UI.

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You should only break rules of style if you can    | Tom Weinstein
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