[p2p-hackers] Re: [rest-discuss] Re: RESTful authorization

[coderman]

On 9/27/05, Justin Chapweske <justin at chapweske.com> wrote:
> Based on your description, such as a system wouldn't work very well due
> to leaks from referrers, logging, and other systems that don't mind
> communicating about visited URLs.
> ...
> So, if you guys know any wiki authors, encourage them to automatically
> insert a referrer scrubber/redirect page when following any external
> URLs.

hey, that's a resource discovery feature, not a bug!

in all seriousness, sometimes this is useful and desired, like
trackbacks in blogs, and sometimes it is a disastrous disclosure,
exposing a bunch of really bad attitudes, for example.  ;)

what would be nice is a simple way to toggle your wiki/site software
in one of two modes:
[ ] tell remote hosts my referrer details
[ ] do not disclose any information about me (referrer) to remote hosts

right now i have to use complicated proxy filtering rules to
accomplish this.  (which are still useful, but needlessly cumbersome. 
usually...)