Referer Header Reliability
Discussions center on the HTTP Referer header's unreliability due to modern browser privacy features that suppress, fake, or omit it, with advice against relying on it for web functionality.
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Referrer header considered harmful yet? :-)
Modern browsers suppress the referrer. Relying on it for functionality is not a good idea.
How about referring from a https site? AFAIK, browsers don't send a referrer from s https site.
Browsers are not guaranteed to send Referer headers and some choose not to (or send fake ones) due to the privacy implications.
Please stop relying on the Referer header. It can be forged and is often enough removed completely for privacy reasons.
Hmm. I thought browsers stopped giving out referrer years ago ... !?
browsers started to limit referrer info a few years ago, this might be a workaround.
Does anyone not have their referer header supressed or faked?
Do you have a privacy browser extension which suppresses the Referer header? (which is really all this workaround is about)
That doesn't work when your browser doesn't send referers...