Comments on: Help encourage Mozilla to fix a Firefox bug

By: strk

strk — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:20:38 +0000

I agree this is a non-bug.
No site should rely on a referer.
Beside, Gnash doesn’t use the browser sockets
at all, and intentionally doesn’t send a referer,
so I hope youtube will never rely on that!

By: chat

chat — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:21:43 +0000

Could someone tell me if Firefox 3 has made any improvements regarding this?

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:16:43 +0000

I agree that this is a major bug. It has been causing problems and security issues on our application for many years now. I have no idea why the firefox developers have not fixed it yet.

By: epilasyon

epilasyon — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:24:57 +0000

I doubt you can get much more optional than that. The real breakage, as far as I’m concerned, is that browsers still send it by default

By: Elliot

Elliot — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:34:53 +0000

According to some of the comments it works with POST but not GET. Anyway I tried to vote but no vote button.

By: Oliver Naumann

Oliver Naumann — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:37:10 +0000

RFC 2616 states that the Referer header field “allows the client to specify, for the server’s benefit, the address [...].” I doubt you can get much more optional than that. The real breakage, as far as I’m concerned, is that browsers still send it by default. As long as they do, you will have to choose between neglecting data prevention and no longer using the broken websites that rely on it.

By: video indir

video indir — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:44:11 +0000

We do really love Mozilla but it really needs to be rewieved again. Sometimes I miss my IE :(