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IE 5.22 on Mac Transmitting HTTP Referer from Secure Page
- To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
- Subject: IE 5.22 on Mac Transmitting HTTP Referer from Secure Page
- From: <deane@deanebarker.net>
- Date: 24 Dec 2003 16:16:09 -0000
Documented instance of Internet Explorer 5.22 on a Mac transmitting an HTTP
Referer header from a link on a secure page (https):
http://www.gadgetopia.com/2003/12/23/OutlookWebAccessPrivacyHole.html
This is clearly covered in the HTTP 1.1 spec (RFC 2616), Section 15.1.3,
"Encoding Sensitive Information in URI's":
"Clients SHOULD NOT include a Referer header field in a (non-secure) HTTP
request if the referring page was transferred with a secure protocol."