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To answer #1, the referrer could probably be used to make a link refer to a login page on another domain, and to then let the host redirect to the correct page
by rocqua 9y ago
To answer #1, the referrer could probably be used to make a link refer to a login page on another domain, and to then let the host redirect to the correct page after login.
There are of course ways to do this by following your suggestion #2, but I suspect this might be why we originally had the referrer header.
- alkonaut 9y agoThird party logins are definitely a use case. But you'd think that they would aim to do it with logins.somewhereelse.com/?u=source instead of relying on the referrer field as the source to go back to! I wonder how common actual use of referrer is?