Re: lynx-dev http referer problem

[pg]

In a recent note, Esa Pikkarainen said:

> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 16:17:45 +0200
> 
> But I found a strange problem: Lynx (Lynx/2.8.2rel.1 libwww-FM/2.14) 
> does not send the referer header if that referer address would 
> containd a query string. Is this a bug or by desing?

> (I mean URLs like http://www.com/index.ihtml?step=true)
> 
I believe it's a security feature -- the intent is to avoid passing sensitive
information entered into one form to a different page, possibly on a different
server.

-- gil
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