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title="NEW - Empty referer header after WebKit session state restoration trips Bad Behavior Wordpress plugin"
href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159606">159606</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>Empty referer header after WebKit session state restoration trips Bad Behavior Wordpress plugin
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<th>Classification</th>
<td>Unclassified
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<th>Product</th>
<td>WebKit
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<th>Version</th>
<td>Other
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>PC
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<th>OS</th>
<td>Linux
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>Normal
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>P2
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<th>Component</th>
<td>WebCore Misc.
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>webkit-unassigned@lists.webkit.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>mcatanzaro@igalia.com
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<td>bugs-noreply@webkitgtk.org, cdumez@apple.com
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<pre>Reproducible in Epiphany on many Wordpress blogs:
* Visit affected blog, e.g. <a href="https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/">https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/</a>
* Close browser (triggering session state save)
* Reopen browser (triggering session restoration)
It causes Wordpress to send an HTTP 400 error message, instead of properly reloading the page. Turns out we're tripping the Bad Behavior Wordpress plugin because we send an empty Referer header; Bad Behavior blocks the page load if the header is present but empty. I'm not sure why we are sending this empty header, but we should probably be saving the Referer in the session state. Alternatively we could just not send the Referer header, but I bet that would break other sites.
This is probably not reproducible in Safari because Cocoa ports do not reload pages after session restoration.</pre>
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