PATCH: 2 small KHTML patches...

Dawit A. adawit at kde.org
Wed Jan 7 02:36:35 GMT 2004


On Tuesday 06 January 2004 19:56, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> On Saturday 03 January 2004 18:00, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > > 1.) If a meta-redirection is scheduled in a framed page the wrong
> > > referrer header is sent. This happens because the referrer string is
> > > incorrectly set to "" in ::slotRedirect.
> >
> > Yes, that line looked strange indeed.
>
> This line is there to make sure that we don't send a referrer when either
> the client or the server is doing a redirection, or when some javascript
> opens a new page.

> If khtml is now sending a referrer header in any of those cases, you just
> introduced a security problem. Congratulations.

You mean a privacy problem, no ? Anyways, would the attached patch be 
acceptable then ?

-- 
Regards,
Dawit A.
"Preach what you practice, practice what you preach"
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