Closed Bug 1424333 Opened 8 years ago Closed 8 years ago

network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy=1 does not send referer when website is accessed directly via ip address

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Version:
57 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1322890

People

(Reporter: winpassuser, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0 Build ID: 20171206182557 Steps to reproduce: I sent network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy=1 and then visited http://192.168.0.1 to configure my router. Actual results: Due to a missing referer header, the router configuration page does not load. Expected results: The setting network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy=1 ensures that referer information is not leaked between different domains. Such a leak cannot happen when visited a website by its ip address, so I do not see why the referer should be suppressed. This bug is similar to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1322890 albeit for a different setting.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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