Closed Bug 383708 Opened 17 years ago Closed 15 years ago

NPN_GetURLNotify and NPN_PostURLNotify don't post Referer (referrer) header

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

PowerPC
macOS
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 410904

People

(Reporter: keli, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/419 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20070508 Firefox/1.5.0.12

When loading urls from a browser plugin using NPN_Get/PostURLNotify, no Referer (referrer) header is added. 

This does work in Safari, which uses the URL of the page embedding the plug-in, which in my opinion is correct.

A solution for NPN_PostURLNotify is to add the Referer header from the plug-in code, but this is not possible with NPN_GetURLNotify, as it does not allow submitting custom request headers.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a cgi script that log the submitted request headers to a text file
2. Create a custom plugin that fetches a url using NPN_GetURLNotify
3. Create a page embedding the custom plugin and point it to the cgi script url
4. load the page

Actual Results:  
The log file generated by the cgi script does not contain a Referer header

Expected Results:  
The output should contain a Referer header referring to the page embedding the custom plugin
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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