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Originally Posted by Torkell
There are some misguided firewalls (*cough*norton*cough*) which eat the referer in the name of privacy. You could try allowing requests with no referer as well as requests with the correct referer, as people who follow links from off-site will usually send referer headers.
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Thanks for the bit about firewalls.
About allowing empty referrer headers - one of the things with allowing those is that we've had problems with people getting tricked on irc/instant messaging, which won't broadcast referrers.
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