several referer errors

[Brent Simmons]

Some of them remove or rewrite the referer.

-Brent

At 5:54 PM +0000 12/17/01, Chris Bunch wrote:
>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
>____________________________________________
>>  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).
>>
>>
>>