GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 59572
Referrer field not filled in when middle clicking, context menu action or downloading.
Last modified: 2014-08-26 19:50:49 UTC
The Referer field in the HTTP headers is not filled in when using open-in-a-new-window or open-in-a-new-tab function in the popup-menu of a link.
no modern day browser does send a referrer when "opening link in a new window/tab"
*** Bug 61005 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 66795 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I'm sorry to argue about that. With 'modern day browser' you obviously mean mozilla, as both IE 6.0 and opera 5.05 do send the referer in that case. mozilla doesn't, but there this is considered a bug. See http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48902 But I'm not sure, whether galeon can fix that, or if that is mozilla's fault. I'm reopening the bug in any case......
well, they didnt when i tested (August) that must have been IE 5.0 and Opera 5 and Netscape 4 what about now: "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)" does "Opera/6.0 (Linux 2.2.18-1smp i686; U) [en]" doesnt "Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.18-1smp i686)" also doesnt i'd agree we probably need this
just to note that this will probably require modifications of the mozilla interfaces we use so i dont see it in the immediate future
*** Bug 67660 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
masschange ganeral -> galeon-maint@bugzilla.gnome.org (which is currently me) sorry for the spam
As of 0.9.9 (if not earlier), Mozilla does set the referer field on 'open in new window' and 'open in new tab', but galeon still doesn't, so it looks like a galeon bug. 'open in new window' should look the same to the web site receiving a click as open a site in the same window.
*** Bug 94918 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 69110 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 102827 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This may be of interest, not sure if we can use it though. http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170722
this bug is currently making it difficult to browse the somethingawful forums, where a referrer is required to reply to a post. I can no longer browse a thread, middle click on a post I want to reply to, and continue to read the thread. Is there a real reason why a referrer shouldn't be sent? To the user, the act of middle-clicking a link differs from left-clicking only in that a new window is opened up for the destination link. It's not the same in my mind as opening a new window, pasting the new url, and hitting enter.
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135659
Galeon has not seen any code changes since May 2010: https://git.gnome.org/browse/archive/galeon/log This project is not under active development anymore and got recently archived in GNOME Git. It is currently unlikely that there will be any further active development. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this bug report in the future if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again. If you are interested in maintainership, inform https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list