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Re: search engine uses Referrer: field



That's one of the points...  the cgi scripts are all on one machine, not
mirrored with the html pages..

On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 01:32:51PM +0200, Eric Marsden wrote:
> >>>>> "ms" == Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE> writes:
> 
>   ms> Yes, it's done to be able to point to a mirror next to you instead
>   ms> of the general one.  Can you give details on what you send and receive
>   ms> and what is wrong with it, I'm sure the script can be fixed.
> 
> I set Referrer: to "http://www.privacy.org/"; (yes, maybe I'm a little
> paranoid). This means that the responses page contains URLs such as
> 
>    http://www.privacy.org/Packages/stable/devel/cmucl.html
> 
> 
> I see the point regarding mirrors. The only solution I see without
> using the Referrer is to have each mirror of the search form contain a
> hidden field which provides its host address. This would be a little
> complicated to set up, but I do believe it is a better idea than the
> current solution.
>     
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