127935 - Debug - Networking should have static referrer support

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Mathias Bogaert]

It would be very useful to be able to specify a static referrer (HTTP referer
header value). It would also be useful to specify that the referer may never be
sent with the request.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

To HTTP networking

Comment 2

[Darin Fisher]

you can disable the Referer header by setting the following pref:

user_pref("network.http.sendRefererHeader", 0);

-> future

Comment 3

[Mathias Bogaert]

Not disable (this is bug 55477), but setting it to a static content (for example
a URI). This is useful for debugging and testing web applications. I do not know
a browser who has this feature, and it would be really handy to have.

Comment 4

[Darin Fisher]

I was responding to this part of the bug report:

> It would also be useful to specify that the referer may never be
> sent with the request.

Adding support for a static referrer isn't going to happen anytime soon :(

Comment 5

[Jeff Thieleke]

> Adding support for a static referrer isn't going to happen anytime soon :(

Is based on technical or political reasons?  

It would take ~10 minutes to add this functionality to my patch in bug #55477,
but I really can't see how providing the means to send a static referrer would
be useful to more than a handful of people.  Maybe this would be better done by
using an external proxy?

Comment 6

[Darin Fisher]

this bug was futured because it was not deemed critical for mozilla 1.0 ...
sorry,  i should have mentioned that.

Comment 7

[Daniel de Wildt]

A workaround for this bug could be refspoof from mozdev.org
http://refspoof.mozdev.org/

Comment 8

[Patrick McManus [:mcmanus]]

addon territory