Supress the Referer HTTP header?

[peterx14]

Hi all!

Is there anyway I can stop the Referer from being sent with the request header?

Ideally this would appear as a Privacy option I guess, but any method would do me for the minute!

[peterx14]

I found "network.http.sendRefererHeader" in about:config, it's an integer with a default value of 2... and not a boolean as I might've expected.

Anyhoo, quick google and this:
<pre> user_pref("network.http.sendRefererHeader", 0);</pre>
added to user.js does the trick.

The next question is what do the values "1" and "2" do?

And for the wish-list, I guess it would be nice to be able to allow/disallow referer by site!

And finally - why is it, when you search for information on something, you can't find it (I checked about:config before, honest) but as soon as you post a question somewhere, you <em>immediately</em> find the answer?!

[RAF]

And finally - why is it, when you search for information on something, you can't find it (I checked about:config before, honest) but as soon as you post a question somewhere, you <em>immediately</em> find the answer?!

They call him Murphy..

[tve]

The next question is what do the values "1" and "2" do?

one value sends the referer also on image requests (iirc.... dont remember which of those values, though :P)

[clav]

according to Preferential, 2 means send the whole of the header, and 1 means send part of the header. the domain name only perhaps, rather than the full url?

[sag]

According to http://www.mozillazine.org/forums/viewt ... 1238#61238

// STOP REFERRER LOGGING - 02.05.03
// 0=don't send any, 1=send only on clicks, 2=send on image requests as well
user_pref("network.http.sendRefererHeader", 0);

[rhpt]

user_pref("network.http.sendRefererHeader", 2); doesn't seem to work. Firebird deletes the entry from the prefs.js, and the only way to "reset" the setting is to add it back with a value of 0. Only then will the entry re-appear on the prefs.js file