Open Bug 151438 Opened 22 years ago Updated 4 years ago

Dragging a link does not send referer

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Copy & Paste and Drag & Drop, defect, P5)

x86
Windows XP
defect

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(Reporter: jruderman, Unassigned)

References

Details

1. Load http://nastyarea.bigfast.net/te277/. 2. Drag one of the image links into another Mozilla window. No referer is sent, so the link gives a 403-forbidden error.
Keywords: dataloss
Blocks: 61660
qa contact -> pmac
QA Contact: tpreston → pmac
By the definitions on <http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/bug_status.html#severity> and <http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?format=guided>, crashing and dataloss bugs are of critical or possibly higher severity. Only changing open bugs to minimize unnecessary spam. Keywords to trigger this would be crash, topcrash, topcrash+, zt4newcrash, dataloss.
Severity: minor → critical
Dragging a link (e.g. to about:config) also fails to check whether the page is allowed to link to the URL.
Brant, care to explain why this bug is marked critical? I don't even think the "dataloss" keyword is justified. Relying on HTTP_REFERER for authentication (as suggested by Jesse) is a Bad Idea. Btw, the example URL now redirects to a hardcore site. Is it supposed to?
The original URL was a porn site. It is now gone. Try a link to http://www.delorie.com:81/some/url.html instead. Not dataloss, so not critical. By the way, I didn't suggest using referer, nor do porn sites use the referer to authenticate users. Porn sites use the referer to make sure other sites don't embed their images.
Severity: critical → minor
Keywords: dataloss
Assignee: bross2 → nobody
QA Contact: pmac
QA Contact: drag-drop
dragging is a shortcut for copy-paste-go so expect the behavior to be the same

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, >=5 years untouched DOM/Storage bugs' priority and severity.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong, please write a comment and ni :jstutte.

Severity: minor → S4
Priority: -- → P5
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