[Gllug] Dishonouring Redirects

David Damerell damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Mon May 23 18:44:42 UTC 2005


On Monday, 23 May 2005, Anthony Newman wrote:
>What is the Referer header set to for the redirected request which 
>arrives at 164.109.84.143:80? This cannot be relied upon strictly 
>speaking, but most browsers produce accurate Referers AFAIK, which may 
>allow you to determine a "bounced" request.

Also, although he'll miss some by trusting Referer, that's still an
improvement; he won't get any false positives by looking for this
Korean site in the Referer, no?

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