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

[Vlad Harchev]

On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:

> At 04:05p +0500 04/07/2002, Vlad Harchev didst inscribe upon an 
> electronic papyrus:
> 
> >  Just found that lynx doesn't send HTTP_REFERRER for pages that are result 
> > of
> >form submission via GET. Quote from lynx.cfg shows that this is
> >intended behaviour:
> 
> I brought this up on Dec 31 2001, and got useful information which allowed
> my CGI (which checks HTTP_REFERER) to work. See the archives for that day.
> (Speaking of list archives!:)

 Thank you very much for pointing it out. Anyway, in my case I would like to
use GET method, so that doesn't help much. The only solutions for me are
either to ask webmasters to use POST method or to hack lynx or not to use lynx
for that site..

 Best regards,
  -Vlad


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