[QGIS-Developer] QGIS3: no referrer on HTTP(S)-requests

[Tobias Wendorff]

Hi Richard,

Am Sa, 14.04.2018, 10:29 schrieb Richard Duivenvoorde:
> Are you sure they need a 'referrer'?

According to OSM's munin, they're blocking IPs without a referrer
more often:

https://munin.openstreetmap.org/openstreetmap/tile.openstreetmap/index.html

> Some days ago I asked a question about the 'User-Agent'-header in
> (OSM)-requests [1], with a link to the 'Tile Usage Policy page [2],
> which states:
> "If known, a valid HTTP Referer."

Argh, I remember your post now :)

> And are people in a corporate network not always sending the proxy as
> referrer? Or their actual domain?

I know maaany corporations using IP masquerading (Universities also
do here). But I've never seen them adding anything to the referrer.

Best regards,
Tobias