262088 - Loading image via 'Load Image' does not use HTTP Referer (referrer)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 151437

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ian Abbott]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10

If you right click on an image on a web page and select the 'View Image' option,
then if the image needs to be (re)loaded, the HTTP Referer header is not set in
the HTTP GET command to fetch the image.  The Referer ought to be set to the URL
of the page containing the image.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load a page with images on it.
2. Clear the cache.
3. Use a capture program such as tcpdump or Ethereal to monitor the connection.
4. Right click on an image and select the 'View Image' option.

Actual Results:  
The captured HTTP GET command for loading the image does not have a Referer header.

Expected Results:  
The Referer header ought to be set to the URL of the page containing the image.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 151437 ***