On Sun, 11 Nov 2007, Jim Jewett wrote: > > Instead worrying about how to spell noreferer, why not meet the need > another way, such as a "refer" attribute which indicates a string to use > in place of the URL. > > <a href="www.example.com">default to using the > current URL</a> > > <a href="www.example.com" > refer="http://localcharity.org";>Give the affiliate > credit to localcharity.org</a> > > <a href="www.example.com" refer="None">Don't > provide any particularly useful tracking > information.</a>
While well-meaning, this feature could unfortunately be used for all kinds of evil things, such as getting around CSRF protection, bandwidth leeching, and so forth. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
