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authordes <des@FreeBSD.org>2002-11-28 12:07:15 +0000
committerdes <des@FreeBSD.org>2002-11-28 12:07:15 +0000
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Implement and document support for an HTTP_REFERER environment variable.
PR: 28171 Submitted by: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> Approved by: re (bmah) MFC after: 1 week
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@@ -511,6 +511,11 @@ variable.
This variable is used if and only if connected to an HTTP proxy, and
is ignored if a user and/or a password were specified in the proxy
URL.
+.It Ev HTTP_REFERER
+Specifies the referer URL to use for HTTP requests.
+If set to
+.Dq auto ,
+the document URL will be used as referer URL.
.It Ev HTTP_USER_AGENT
Specifies the User-Agent string to use for HTTP requests.
This can be useful when working with HTTP origin or proxy servers that
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