Re: [syndication] Amphetadesk Referrer

[Morbus Iff <morbus@disobey.com>]

>Are you allowing the users to enter a username anywhere?  If so, then how
>about
>a checkbox somewhere that allowed them to indicate the use of it tacked
>onto >regular referring user agent string?  If not the username then how
>about a web
>site URL?(encoded of course)

User's can enter in whatever HTTP Referer string they want - I don't tack
it on as a query string (as per Radio). The UA can't be changed, no (imo,
the Referer is plenty). As for a frontend UI, I have no intentions of
making one. I can think of no easy way to explain it to a user without
conspiracy theories about privacy and tracking. *Easy* is the key word - I
could go on for hours about http headers, and referers, and how log files
work (and have, with one or two people), but it's not something I'm going
to do for the masses.

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