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Bug 41265 - HTTP referer is sent from secure connection
HTTP referer is sent from secure connection
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
unspecified
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2012-10-22 02:25 UTC by Smallman
Modified: 2012-10-22 02:32 UTC (History)
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Description Smallman 2012-10-22 02:25:25 UTC 
When on a secure wiki page (SSL), such as 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vulpicida_canadensis_44260.jpg

and you click a non-secure (http not https) link, such as
http://www.mushroomobserver.org/image/show_image/44260

the referer is sent. This is against RFC 2616. No referer should be sent.

Per RFC 2616 § 15.1.3 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-15.1.3):

   Clients SHOULD NOT include a Referer header field in a (non-secure)
   HTTP request if the referring page was transferred with a secure
   protocol.

General http referer info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer
Comment 1 Smallman 2012-10-22 02:32:42 UTC 
Seems it doesn't send...my mistake.
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