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Re:How not to do URL redirects (… the way Quora does) by mkjones on Thursday January 19, 2012 @05:38PM (#3487206)
On sites where there's private information in the URLs + links to external sites, overriding the referrer is necessary in order to protect users' privacy / identity. See https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/protecti... for why we do this at Facebook (I work on that system).
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Re:How not to do URL redirects (… the way Quora does) by zerostar07 on Thursday January 19, 2012 @06:45PM (#3487507)
Quora 's question pages are community-built public pages. If they have private urls in account pages, they should limit referral protection to them. Also, i wonder, doesn't the 200 OK code confuse search bots?
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