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Bernds-N-Welt

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Registered: 17-Jan-2008

jAlbum internal Browser sends Referrer "google.com"
Posted: 11 Apr 23, 15:24

The skin I use is Tiger/Shine V3.28.2
The internal jAlbum Browser sends a referrer "google.com" in its HTTP Header. This is misleading.
When switching to an external Browser,then the referrer is blank, which is correct.

I checked several Skins, all skins show this behavior.

Questions:
1. Why at all sends the Browser a referrer coming from google?
2. The Referrer "google.com" is outdated. Actually google sends a referrer "https://www.google.com".

Best regards
Bernd.

Edited by: Bernds-N-Welt on 11 Apr 2023, 19:16

Edited by: Bernds-N-Welt on 11 Apr 2023, 19:26

davidekholm

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Registered: 18-Oct-2002

Re: jAlbum internal Browser sends Referrer "google.com"
Posted: 11 Apr 23, 23:19

in response to: Bernds-N-Welt

It's actually a mechanism that tests whether a URL is working or not and not the internal browser per se. The faked referrer field is there just to make the client request look as normal as possible.

Bernds-N-Welt

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Registered: 17-Jan-2008

Re: jAlbum internal Browser sends Referrer "google.com"
Posted: 12 Apr 23, 13:00

in response to: davidekholm

Why not sending for instance "jAlbum" as a referrer.
The firewall of my website tries to detect faked referrers, and "google.com" is obviously faked.
Why not sending the correct referrer "https://www.google.com" or a dummy "jAlbum" (the useragent "jAlbum" is already used by the jAlbum Browser)

davidekholm

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Registered: 18-Oct-2002

Re: jAlbum internal Browser sends Referrer "google.com"
Posted: 13 Apr 23, 16:59

in response to: Bernds-N-Welt

Bernds-N-Welt wrote:
Why not sending for instance "jAlbum" as a referrer.
The firewall of my website tries to detect faked referrers, and "google.com" is obviously faked.
Why not sending the correct referrer "https://www.google.com" or a dummy "jAlbum" (the useragent "jAlbum" is already used by the jAlbum Browser)

I agree it should at least be syntactically correct so I've changed to https://www.google.com now. To enjoy the fix, ensure you run v30.2, then issue Tools->External tools->"jAlbum core update"

Bernds-N-Welt

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Registered: 17-Jan-2008

Re: jAlbum internal Browser sends Referrer "google.com"
Posted: 14 Apr 23, 09:57

in response to: davidekholm

thank you very much.

davidekholm

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Registered: 18-Oct-2002

Re: jAlbum internal Browser sends Referrer "google.com"
Posted: 14 Apr 23, 17:33

in response to: Bernds-N-Welt

Thanks for spotting this!

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