several referer errors

[Chris Bunch]

Thanks Brent

Do you have any insights as to what proxy servers/firewalls actually do to
the http request? It would help in discussions with my user's firewall
manager.

C
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> From: Brent Simmons <brent at userland.com>
> Reply-To: Frontier-Users at userland.com
> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 09:34:21 -0800
> To: Frontier-Users at userland.com
> Subject: Re: several referer errors
> 
> 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).
> 
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