Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Referer from https
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From: Stephen Fisher <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:37:26 -0700
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 09:16:05AM +0100, Sake Blok wrote:

> Funny, I would have expected this to (a "https://xxx referer in the http request), but I just tested with Firefox and whenever I follow a link on an https page to a non-https page (either on the same site or a different site), there is just no "Referer:" header. I'm not sure how other browsers are dealing with this, so I checked the RFC[1]. It states in 15.1.3:
> 
>    Clients SHOULD NOT include a Referer header field in a (non-secure) 
>    HTTP request if the referring page was transferred with a secure 
>    protocol.
> 
> So there is your answer why you don't get the referer information.

Thanks for understanding the question better than me and posting the 
background RFC :).  I thought the question was "can you see the HTTP 
response redirect to the http site"