On 10 Dec 2001 15:16:41 GMT, Michael H. Warfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip> By default, mozilla sends from http->http/https. Https->http will not be sent (see rfc2616, section 15.1.[23]), and this matches IEs behaviour, IIRC (We do have a couple of bugs on not sending referer for open in new window, and so on. See bug 61660, which is a meta bug, although I don't know how up to date it is). I belive we differ from IE in https->https behaviour - we only send for the same host. I thought there was a bug on that, but I can't find it now - it may have been WONTFIXed, I suppose. We don't send the referrer for links from mailnews/file/etc urls, and theres a bug opened today to not do so for data urls either. I don't know what other browsers do in those cases. This is configurable, and sending referer at all can be disabled by the user. See nsHttpChannel::SetReferrer for the logic. Bradley
