Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hyperreal.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA14470; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 14:28:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from houston.matchlogic.com (houston.matchlogic.com [204.144.184.157]) by hyperreal.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA14445 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 14:28:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by houston.matchlogic.com with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:28:01 -0600 Message-ID: From: Charles Randall To: new-httpd@apache.org Subject: Referrer header and proxy servers? Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:28:00 -0600 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: new-httpd-owner@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@apache.org I'm running into a problem which I cannot find described in the HTTP spec (It may be there, but I can't find it). Should proxy servers pass the HTTP "Referer" header un-touched? What about on a 302 Redirect? In other words, if a browser contacts a proxy server with the Referer header set to http://www.foo.com/ and my server redirects the request to http://www.bar.com/ should the Referer header of the request to www.bar.com contain "http://www.foo.com/"? I believe that it should, but can't find a reference in the specification to support this. The apache proxy module does not appear to alter the Referer header (which, from my perspective, is good). Charles F. Randall crandall@matchlogic.com MatchLogic, Inc.