Open Bug 1189364 Opened 9 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Make referrer policies and network.http.sendRefererHeader play nicely

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P3)

defect

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People

(Reporter: franziskus, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

(Whiteboard: tpe-seceng, domsecurity-backlog1)

Disabling referer headers (setting network.http.sendRefererHeader to 0) triggers reloads of cached elements (images at least [1]) due to different referrer policies even though those request are all identical (have no referer header).

[1] https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/image/imgLoader.cpp#672
Whiteboard: tpe-seceng
Priority: -- → P3
Whiteboard: tpe-seceng → tpe-seceng, domsecurity-backlog1
Component: DOM → DOM: Core & HTML
Severity: normal → S3
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