How can you be sure you actually need to send a Referer header. Whats the (user) benefit of sending one. I never send Referer and I have never had any problems as result.
I remove unwanted headers from requests generated by user agents I cannot adequately control, e.g., graphical web browsers, using a loopback-bound forward proxy. Perhaps this will be another one to remove.
Some websites (IIRC twitter does) open link differently based on the referrer header, so automatically sending a twitter referref for all twitter links improves your experience.
Sending a Referer header does not improve [your] experience. It is the opposite for me. I cannot tolerate Twitter's Javascript, I do not use a graphical browser. I find it annoying when people submit Twitter status messages to HN.
I have a script that reformats the JSON into a simple HTML page with no Javascript. This improves the experience for me:
You should reach out to dang. You seem to be shadowbanned or something. All your comments show up as grayed out and 'dead'. I 'vouched' for this before I could reply.
