79321 - Referer header not passed when requesting images

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 74284

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[sterno]

Using previous versions of mozilla and other browsers, requests for images are
sent with the "referer" header set to the value of the page that the image was
on.  Some websites use this functionality to prevent people from accessing
images directly from other sites.  As of mozilla .9 this functionality is
broken.  I made a test page and these are the headers I get from .8 or below:

HEADER: cookie: JSESSIONID=6dfs8r1g91
HEADER: accept-language: en
HEADER: connection: keep-alive
HEADER: accept: */*
HEADER: keep-alive: 300
HEADER: host: www.myhost.com
HEADER: accept-encoding: gzip,deflate,compress,identity
HEADER: user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.1 i686; en-US; 0.8)
Gecko/20010215
HEADER: referer: http://www.myhost.com/test.html


The same page request in mozilla .9:

HEADER: cookie: JSESSIONID=6dfs8r1g91
HEADER: connection: keep-alive
HEADER: accept-encoding: gzip,deflate,compress,identity
HEADER: accept: */*
HEADER: accept-charset: ISO-8859-1, utf-8; q=0.667, *; q=0.667
HEADER: accept-language: en
HEADER: user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.1 i686; en-US; rv:0.9)
Gecko/20010505
HEADER: keep-alive: 300
HEADER: host: www.myhost.com

Comment 1

[Keyser Sose]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 74284 ***

Comment 2

[timeless]

vrfy dupe

Comment 3

[benc]

moved out of browser-general ->networking