Tighter Control Over Your Referrers - Mozilla Security Blog
Referer Control grants full control over the HTTP Referer. You can forge any referrer you want, both globally or on a per-site basis. Alternatively you can choose to disable the Referer completely. Can I rely on Referer HTTP header? - Stack Overflow The referer field in HTTP requests can be easily modified and, as such, is not a valid means of message integrity checking. Some other and more specific reasons not to trust the Referer Header, include: In general, when "linking" from an HTTP <-> HTTPS (TLS) connection, most standard Web browsers will not inform this header. A new security header: Referrer Policy
Typically, this information is captured in the HTTP referer field in an HTTP header. (The term "HTTP referer" was originally a misspelling, but it has since been adopted into the HTTP specification.) For secondary elements on a website, like images or advertisements, the referer is typically the HTML page that calls those secondary elements.
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