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Re:Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously by eli on Friday August 03, 2012 @08:02AM (#4333612)
IIRC, https sites do not send referer, so that makes sense.
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Re:Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously by 0x0 on Friday August 03, 2012 @08:18AM (#4333649)
https sites sends referers only to other https sites (even crossdomain), but not when navigating from https to http.
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