Gervase Markham wrote:
>
> > Oh darn I got it all wrong. The question should be, does Mozilla bookmarks
> > leave a mark in the server log file? (In log files you can normally only see
> > what links people have clicked on, not chosen from the bookmark file or
> > addresses they've written themselves in the browser address field.)
>
> Any page requested from the server, no matter how it is asked for, will
> leave a note in the log. However, if a cache (either Mozilla's, a proxy
> cache or whatever) fulfils the request instead, there will be no hit, and
> no log entry.
He's asking about the HTTP Referrer header, which tells the server where
you're coming from. Some sites use this to prevent "deep linking", only
allowing access to parts of their site if they came from another part of the
site.
Typically if you type a URL in the location bar of a browser no referrer is
sent.
In Communicator 4.x following a bookmark sent a referrer of "Bookmark:" or
something similar. A bad implementation would send
"file:///c|/windows/profile/me/etc/bookmarks.html", giving away personal
path information.
There is an RFE to be able to turn off Referrer altogether
(http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55477) but I don't see any
reported problems with bookmarks.
-Dan Veditz
