Re: [Lynx-dev] Can't connect to bitbucket sing lynx

[David Woolley]

On 07/11/13 14:40, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2013-11-07 15:28, Shérab wrote:
> > CSRF verification failed. Request aborted.
> > You are seeing this message because this HTTPS site requires a
> > 'Referer header' to be sent by your Web browser, but none was sent.

The normal reason for requiring REFER is actually as an anti-deep 
linking measure, to make sure that you accessed the resource from their 
page which probably carries the advertising that pays for their site. 
It also helps stop simple automata.
> You might need to check your lynx.cfg file for various REFERER*
> settings.  In particular, you want to make sure that you don't have
>
>   REFERER_WITH_QUERY:DROP
>
> but rather either

The reason people might want to use this is to make click trailing 
difficult, particularly cross-site click trailing.

>    REFERER_WITH_QUERY:PARTIAL
>
> or the less-secure

The common reason for this is to prevent search engine keywords being 
recovered.