Fwd: [Bug 22558] referrer leaks through to non-referring site

[Dirk Mueller]

On Mon, 07 Jul 2003, Waldo Bastian wrote:

> Attached are two patches as a partial fix to the referrer problem. It changes 
> the way how d->m_pageReferrer is set within KHTMLPart: It is now set 
> according to the information that it gets back from the io-slave (http 
> slave). This ensures that the document.referrer is better synced to the 
> actual referrer send by the http-slave. 

Not that I actually read the patch yet, but I just wanted to note that 
document.referrer is not supposed to be synced with the referrer that the 
kio_http sends. it should contain the url the user browsed before, not the 
one embedded objects refer to. 


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Dirk