[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 147 Set network.http.sendRefererHeader to 2 on browser config

[Rob Crittenden]

Petr Vobornik wrote:
> On 05/29/2012 11:29 PM, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> Petr Vobornik wrote:
>>> IPA web UI isn't functional when browser doesn't send http headers.
>>>
>>> This patch adds a functionality which sets Firefox
>>> network.http.sendRefererHeader configuration option to value '2' which
>>> enables it.
>>>
>>> Possible values:
>>> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.http.sendRefererHeader
>>>
>>> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2778
>>
>> Should we also add a message when referer is missing to check this
>> setting in about:config?
>
> I'm not sure what you have in mind. We set the referer option so why
> would user check it afterwards?
>
> Yes the ticket was about checking the option but: If user is configuring
> the browser he wants the browser configured. So we should set all
> options which are required. This is one of them. We have not been
> notifying the user what was set, so I didn't add such notification for
> this option now as well.
>
> We might want to notify the user what options were changed but it's not
> the topic of this ticket.

I was thinking more for already configured browsers who then later mess 
with this value. It fails in a very non-obvious way.

rob