Jeff Weinstein wrote:
can do about the reverse-ip, but what about http referral field? Will there be a way to turn off (blank, actually) this field?
I would like to add a way to turn it off, but it won't happen in 2.0.
Something that a lot of people don't realize is that the HTTP referrer field is only sent when you've actually clicked on a link -- it does not just give away the last page you happened to be looking at, it only gives away pages that actually refer to the one you're going to. So if you're concerned about leaving a trail to a particular page, you can go there by pasting the URL into the Location field, or via a bookmark (menu item, not page), etc. Very, very early betas of Netscape (around 0.6 or so, I think) did give away whatever the previous page was, and I think old versions of Mosaic did so as well. -- Jamie Zawinski jwz@netscape.com http://www.netscape.com/people/jwz/ ``A signature isn't a return address, it is the ASCII equivalent of a black velvet clown painting; it's a rectangle of carets surrounding a quote from a literary giant of weeniedom like Heinlein or Dr. Who.'' -- Chris Maeda