need help with Referer Control 0.4.3 add-on
Hello, I can't seem to make this add-on work as I expect, and I can't find any way to contact anyone, except maybe here. If there is a better place to get support for Referer Control 0.4.3, please let me know :-)
It doesn't seem to work as I expect, although it's entirely possible that I don't clearly understand how it's supposed to work. Afaiu, it's supposed to change how the referer header is handled, when you click a link to go to another website. It puts a dropdown list on the toolbar, with several choices for what to do when you follow a link. So you can change it as needed, per website. It's default setting is "remove" which means (apparently) to remove the referer header before sending the request (which I guess they say makes it ready to go "out of the box").
Before I found this add-on, I had changed network.http.send.RefererHeader from 2 to 0 (in about:config). The only website where I had trouble, is Launchpad.net. Without setting it to 2, all I can do is view the website. If I want to post a comment, or search the site, I would have to manually change the referer header control in about:config. So I thought this would be a good website to test the add-on. (When I would try to post a comment or search the site, I would get an error message about the referer header.)
So when I found this add-on, I put it back to 2, assuming that the add-on is now going to block the referer header from being sent. I went to Launchpad.net (https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape) and with the new add-on's dropdown control list, set to "remove", I'm still able to do anything I want, without getting an error message about the referer header. So it seems like the add-on just doesn't work.
Out of curiosity, I opened about:config so I could look at what happens to network.http.send.RefererHeader when I change the add-on settings. But apparently, it works in some other way, than altering about: config, because no matter which control option I choose, the referer header stays on 2.
Well, I don't think that's exactly evidence that it doesn't work, because maybe the add-on works in some other way, than actually changing network.http.send.RefererHeader. But it does leave me to wonder how it does work, and why it's not working at Launchpad.net. Idk, or maybe this add-on really is a scam?
Can anyone help me with this Referer Control 0.4.3 add-on? (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/referrer-control/?src=ss)
Thank you very much :-)
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Hi,
We will not be the right people to help you with the add-on. I did find some contact information about the developer through his GitHub account
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I did a search of the Mozilla Add-ons Web Page (There’s a lot of good stuff here), and found several listings. Some of them were marked as Not Comparable.
Firefox Add-ons > Extensions. See if it has an options button.
Modified by FredMcD
"Not comparable" to what?
Yes, there's an options button.
But it doesn't give any contact info. It says if you don't understand something, read the wiki, without giving any link to the wiki. I finally did find the wiki, but it doesn't answer my questions. It's very hard to understand, because of the broken English.
But based on what I understand, it doesn't seem to work.
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Hi,
We will not be the right people to help you with the add-on. I did find some contact information about the developer through his GitHub account
Note that there is also the network.http.sendSecureXSiteReferrer pref for a secure connection.
Oh, thank you Moses. I could not find that profile page. I found a website, but is all in a traditional Asian language (pretty, but I can't read it).
Thanks cor-el. I will try to search out some info about that. (I do understand, in general, what a cross site request/referer is.) The add-on under discussion probably does more than just prevent the cross site scripting, etc, assuming I can get it to work.
Now that I've got an email address, hopefully I can get some questions answered.
Thank you all very much.
Off topic, but the marking of a particular message that solves the problem is really rather annoying, at least it is to me. Most of the time, there are several replies from different people, which together provide the solution. I just don't understand how this feature is helpful. But of course, I try my best to choose 1 reply ;-)
You're welcome
You can always describe in your reply how you solved it and mark that reply as the solution if you can't decide.