Author: mgrigorov
Date: Sun Feb 27 10:12:49 2011
New Revision: 1075016
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1075016&view=rev
Log:
WICKET-3469 Referrer Leaking with ExternalLink
Update the javadoc explaining how to link to external url without leaking the
session id in the referrer header.
Modified:
wicket/trunk/wicket-core/src/main/java/org/apache/wicket/markup/html/link/ExternalLink.java
Modified:
wicket/trunk/wicket-core/src/main/java/org/apache/wicket/markup/html/link/ExternalLink.java
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/wicket/trunk/wicket-core/src/main/java/org/apache/wicket/markup/html/link/ExternalLink.java?rev=1075016&r1=1075015&r2=1075016&view=diff
==============================================================================
---
wicket/trunk/wicket-core/src/main/java/org/apache/wicket/markup/html/link/ExternalLink.java
(original)
+++
wicket/trunk/wicket-core/src/main/java/org/apache/wicket/markup/html/link/ExternalLink.java
Sun Feb 27 10:12:49 2011
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ package org.apache.wicket.markup.html.li
import org.apache.wicket.markup.ComponentTag;
import org.apache.wicket.model.IModel;
import org.apache.wicket.model.Model;
+import org.apache.wicket.protocol.http.WebApplication;
import org.apache.wicket.request.cycle.RequestCycle;
import org.apache.wicket.request.flow.RedirectToUrlException;
import org.apache.wicket.util.string.UrlUtils;
@@ -32,8 +33,12 @@ import org.apache.wicket.util.string.Url
* <p>
* <strong>Note</strong>: in the case when the support for cookies in the
browser is disabled the
* user's jsessionid will leak in the 'Referrer' header after clicking this
link. If this is a
- * problem for the application then better use {@link Link} which redirects to
the new URL using
- * {@link RedirectToUrlException}.
+ * problem for the application then better use a {@link Link} which redirects
to a shared resource
+ * (see
+ * {@link WebApplication#mountResource(String,
org.apache.wicket.request.resource.ResourceReference)}
+ * , e.g. "/myapp/redirecting-resource?url=...") which on its side redirects
to the new URL using
+ * {@link RedirectToUrlException}. Another option is to use
<code>rel="noreferrer"</code> attribute
+ * in your markup but this will work only in the modern browsers (supporting
HTML5 standard).
*
* @author Juergen Donnerstag
*/
