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The article in question claims that links followed from https facebook do have a referrer header: >In testing links from Facebook and Twitter over HTTPS the re
by papsosouid 14y ago
The article in question claims that links followed from https facebook do have a referrer header:
>In testing links from Facebook and Twitter over HTTPS the referer is present in most cases.
- nostromo 14y agoThat's definitely not to spec if the browser is doing it. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-15.1.3 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-15.1.3 "Clients SHOULD NOT include a Referer header field in a (non-secure) HTTP request if the referring page was transferred with a secure protocol." However, it's possible that Facebook is passing users through an HTTP gateway.
- vikrum 14y agoIt looks like the intermediate 301's referer is being passed thru (For example, all links on Twitter get wrapped as a t.co link, and that's what shows up on the server). I'd imagine that analytics being mined are intelligent enough to collapse twitter.com and t.co as the same social origin. Give it a try yourself: https://twitter.com/vikrum5000/status/256898972478763008 https://twitter.com/vikrum5000/status/256898972478763008 Note the protocol.