305419 - referrer not sent from https:

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Hermann Schwab]

The validator button doesn't work on https: pages. I'll attach a testcase.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050821 SeaMonkey/1.0a
network.http.sendRefererHeader user set integer 1
network.http.sendSecureXSiteReferrer default boolean true

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050821 Firefox/1.6a1
network.http.sendRefererHeader default integer 2
network.http.sendSecureXSiteReferrer default boolean true

see http://preferential.mozdev.com/preferences.html for explanation:
network.http.sendRefererHeader
Handling of HTTP Referer Headers

    * 0 : Do not send referer header
    * 1 : Send partial header
    * 2 : Send all of header

network.http.sendSecureXSiteReferrer
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http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer doesn't send referrer when clicked on
a https page so a error message is received:

No Referer header found!

You have requested we check the referring page, but your browser did not send
the HTTP "Referer" header field.

Comment 1

[Hermann Schwab]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 2

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

This appears to be the intention as per bug 141641 comment 53.

Comment 3

[Hermann Schwab]

(In reply to comment #2)
> This appears to be the intention as per bug 141641 comment 53.

So this would work if w3c would allow a https: connection, like
https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer

But I checked, they don't accept https://validator.w3.org

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

verified invalid