> 
> Occasionally, I found that lynx sends referer field pointing out 
> to local files, including temporary files, which may be not good 
> because of privacy and security reasons (and we guess how remote user 
> may found temp file name generated by lynx). I think the referer: field 
> should not be sent if previous page was not http:// 
>  
> One example: press 'l' to see "links list page" 
> and try to follow some link. (I made a trace log from dev.18 
> but seem this area was not changed for a while): 

there's the NO_FILE_REFERER setting to cover this - we could make a special
case and suppress files that lynx happens to have opened for temporary use
irregardless of that.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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