From a5f0c654a9ec9ea63b4c2e0e81dd87f2795ac820 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Will Andrews Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 05:11:12 +0000 Subject: Add mod_access_referer 1.0.1, an Apache module that provides access control based on Referer HTTP header. PR: 22083 Submitted by: Alex Kapranoff --- www/mod_access_referer/pkg-descr | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) create mode 100644 www/mod_access_referer/pkg-descr (limited to 'www/mod_access_referer/pkg-descr') diff --git a/www/mod_access_referer/pkg-descr b/www/mod_access_referer/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..6a574174a33e --- /dev/null +++ b/www/mod_access_referer/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +mod_access_referer is an Apache module that understand the "Referer" +HTTP header, and grant or deny access based on the Web page that +refered the file. + +The "Referer" HTTP header is sent by the browser to the server, and it +contains the URL of the resource from where the URL of the asked +resource was obtained. The document "Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- +HTTP/1.1" RFC 2616 gives the following explanation: + "The Referer[sic] request-header field allows the client to + specify, for the server's benefit, the address (URI) of the + resource from which the Request-URI was obtained (the "referrer", + although the header field is misspelled.) The Referer + request-header allows a server to generate lists of back-links to + resources for interest, logging, optimized caching, etc. It also + allows obsolete or mistyped links to be traced for maintenance. The + Referer field MUST NOT be sent if the Request-URI was obtained from + a source that does not have its own URI, such as input from the + user keyboard." + +WWW: http://accessreferer.sourceforge.net/ + + -- Alex Kapranoff -- cgit v1.2.3