280525 - Allow "send referrer on images" to be enabled seperately from "send on link"

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Networking, enhancement)

Description

[David Hagood]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041121 MultiZilla/1.8.0.0a
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041121 MultiZilla/1.8.0.0a

Many web sites use the Referer: field to prevent "leeching" their images - they
only serve the image when the Referer: header points back to the appropriate page.

It would be nice to be able to enable sending them the referrer header for the
images, without enabling sending the Referer for link clicks.

With the Multizilla pref bar you can select:
Don't send referrer
Send referrer on link clicks
Send referrer on link clicks and images.

According to the Multizilla team, the ability to add "Send referrer on images
only" is not available from the Mozilla backend.

Ideally, I'd want support for referrer to be under control of an ACL, like many
of the other systems - a list of sites and their allowed settings, plus an
overall policy setting (whitelist/blacklist).



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to set "Send referrer on images only"
2. ???
3. No Profit (ugly!)

Actual Results:  
There is no ability to do so.

Expected Results:  
Allow me to say "Send referrer on images only"

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[David Hagood]

This problem still exists.

Comment 3

[Darin Fisher]

-> default owner

Comment 4

[Patrick McManus [:mcmanus]]

meta referrer, etc..