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eli on Aug 3, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously

IIRC, https sites do not send referer, so that makes sense.

0x0 on Aug 3, 2012 [–]

https sites sends referers only to other https sites (even crossdomain), but not when navigating from https to http.

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