several referer errors

[Brent Simmons]

I run IE 6 on my Windows machine -- it works fine. So it's probably a 
firewall or proxy issue.

-Brent

At 5:06 PM +0000 12/17/01, Chris Bunch wrote:
>One user on one of my sites is getting the same message when attempting to
>post a message to the site. Its not affecting any other users.
>
>The usual explanation for this is that the user's browser is not including
>the referer address in its HTTP request headers. Manila uses this to check
>that the referer is OK to post, avoiding risk of a trojan horse-type illegal
>post.
>
>My user was using an older browser which was said to lack this feature, but
>is now getting the same error with MSIE 6.0, so I'm not sure what's going
>on. He is apparently behind a firewall & I am corresponding with his IT
>admin to see if this could be altering the request headers in some way.
>
>If anyone else has seen this & has a solution, please let me know. Also, can
>anyone confirm that MSIE 6.0 is OK in this respect. (I use Macs & don't have
>access to MSIE6.0 to test).