Re: [dev] [surf] More convenience

From: Christoph Lohmann <20h_AT_r-36.net>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:50:02 +0100

Greetings.

On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:50:02 +0100 Hiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo_AT_codemadness.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Nick <suckless-dev_AT_njw.me.uk> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 05:22:01PM +0100, Hiltjo Posthuma wrote:
> >
> >> For privacy reasons it's probably best to only pass the referrer
> >> if the target download uri is from the same site.
> >
> > Not sure about this. We happily pass the referrer around everywhere
> > else. Privoxy allows referrer stripping (and I have used it for
> > that), I'd be inclined to keep such stuff away from the browser
> > itself. And some sites would no doubt care about referrer, but be on
> > a different domain (edge / cloud / mirror / whatever they're called).
> >
>
> Yeah, thinking about this some more I agree. Besides, you can compare
> the referrer and download uri anyway in a wrapper download script. So
> surf shouldnt need to check this.

Anyone has done the wget/curl scripts together to handle referer, cook‐
ies and whatever else is needed to fool websites, so it could be used in
surf?

Such a script would be useful for other not‐surf‐related downloads.


Sincerely,

Christoph Lohmann
Received on Fri Nov 16 2012 - 18:50:02 CET