Re: lynx-dev HTTP_REFERER for pages that are result of form submission via GET

[David Woolley]

>  That seems to be a very wrong approach, that makes developing lynx-friendly
> dynamic web sites much more difficult (thus making some webmasters totally

It's a privacy issue.  The normal use of this information is to find
out what search engine keywords sent you to a particular site, but it
could be used to gather rather more sensitive data entered into a form
on another site.

> forget about lynx-friendliness). Moreover, Mozilla, NN4.x and IE send
> HTTP_REFERRER for pages that are result of form submission via GET, unlike
> lynx.

And a number of people then run proxies to take them out!

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