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29.0.50; wishlist: eww should handle Referrer better

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 29.0.50; wishlist: eww should handle Referrer better
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2022 12:06:03 +0100

Currently eww handles Referrer inconsistently, I think?  (I haven't
actually looked at the code.)  I think it does send over Referrer when
doing normal clicks, but it doesn't do that when fetching images.

By default, eww should send over referrer on all requests -- if they
are "same site" requests.  (Some sites refuse to work if they don't get
the expected referrer.)  But eww should not (by default) do Referrer
when doing cross-site requests (for privacy reasons).

And there should be a way to customise this behaviour -- for instance,
to always send Referrer.


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Message #8 received at 53281 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: 53281 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#53281: 29.0.50; wishlist: eww should handle Referrer better
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2022 14:28:58 +0100

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> Currently eww handles Referrer inconsistently, I think?  (I haven't
> actually looked at the code.)  I think it does send over Referrer when
> doing normal clicks, but it doesn't do that when fetching images.

No, it seems to do everything properly here (except when hitting `g' in
the eww buffer -- it sends over a referer then too, but I don't really
think we care).

It punts all this to url-lastloc-privacy-level, which allows the user to
customise all this, so there's nothing to do here, and I'm closing this
bug report.

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From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 53281 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#53281: 29.0.50; wishlist: eww should handle Referrer better
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2022 23:28:21 -0500

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Browsers are "supposed to" provide the referrer field "correctly", but
that's not a good thing to do.  The effect is to give web sites
avoidable information about users' browsinge habits.  Thus, it is
better to do what Icecat does.

I think that Icecat gives a "correct" referrer field when you navigate
between pages in the same site, but gives a fake value when navigating
between sites.  I think the fake value may be the same site that you've
navigated to.

I think EWW should do what Icecat does.


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Message #18 received at 53281 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 53281 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#53281: 29.0.50; wishlist: eww should handle Referrer better
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2022 13:24:48 +0100

Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org> writes:

> I think EWW should do what Icecat does.

It does.

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