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Technical reason: Referers aren't sent when transitioning from an SSL page to a non-SSL page - to get the referer sent along, there would need to be an intermed

by gmurphy 16y ago

Technical reason: Referers aren't sent when transitioning from an SSL page to a non-SSL page - to get the referer sent along, there would need to be an intermediate HTTP step and redirect, which would be slower, and would defeat the point of secure search. Here is the bug in Chromium where this was added: http://crbug.com/29920 http://crbug.com/29920

PonyGumbo 16y ago
Thank you. This is what I came here to say.
nzmsv 16y ago
Also, converting the entire site to https will get the referer back. At least with Firefox: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.http.sendSecureXSiteReferrer http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.http.sendSecureXSiteReferr...