774214 - strange behaviour with open link of marked text

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Loreno Heer]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0.1
Build ID: 20120614114901

Steps to reproduce:

I found a link on a website which was had no href markup in html. I mean the link is just text. I marked it and choose open link in new tab from right click menu.

The link is the following:
http://www.mediafire.com/?mqadujooy1mwy9h

and I found it on this page:
http://www.filestube.com/mediafire/6xoA78D8RCtI2yWCDABuuP/proafgx.html


Actual results:

The website that opens differs from the website that opens if I just copy the link and put it manually in the address bar of a new tab.


Expected results:

same thing as if I manually enter the link in the url bar above.

Comment 1

[Loic]

There is no issue, Mediafire is just filtering the HTTP_REFERER value. If you come from FilesTube (by using the right-clik menu in Firefox), HTTP_REFERER is sent to Mediafire which blocks the link (surely because FilesTube is an illegal file indexer).

If you paste the link in the location bar, no HTTP_REFERER is sent and Mediafire opens the normal download page.

Use the add-on RefControl to block the refer sent to Mediafire and you'll understand. ;)