Comments on: Decent left update

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 12:43:00 +0000

I would expect clicking through from SBBS to HP to work for you in IE, but not in Firefox.

Yes, that's right. I should have been clearer. I don't like Firefox so hardly ever use it. It was very useful in finding out passwords I hadn't remembered for years.

By: Chris Lightfoot

Chris Lightfoot — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 12:16:00 +0000

Matthew -- and in Firefox you can still click through to HP? Here if I send that referrer I get a prohibited response.

Is that troublesome in anyway?

Sending an "accurate" referrer header (i.e., one which states the URL of the page on which you clicked a link to reach the new page) is completely optional; it looks like you have Firefox configured to do so, but not IE (it is sending the URL of the requested page as the referrer).

I would expect clicking through from SBBS to HP to work for you in IE, but not in Firefox.

However, it looks like HP has tripped a bandwidth limit, so this may be a bit hard to test right now.

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 12:08:00 +0000

"You can tell Harry and co have their roots in the sectarian left."

Not just the sectarian left, in Harry's case, but actual Stalinism, from which he derives his distaste for Trots and liberals.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:56:00 +0000

I get this

Referer: http://caesious.beasts.org:48889/

Using IE

and this

Referer: http://www.stalinism.com/shot-by-both-sides/full_post.asp?pid=1285

using Firefox. So no, I suppose. Is that troublesome in anyway?

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:45:00 +0000

You can tell Harry and co have their roots in the sectarian left. The patterns of that behaviour persist. The holier-than-thou attitudes, the preachiness, the constant need to feel like they are the "real" left or the genuine article, battling to keep the flame alight. And of course the way they treat others on the left who don’t agree with them, with utter disdain and venom, with much more bile than anything directed at the right. That too a common attitude of the the battle weary groupuscules of the left, so much energy is expended on condemning traitors, heretics etc within the ranks.

By: Chris Lightfoot

Chris Lightfoot — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:30:00 +0000

All the links work fine for me.

-- does your browser perhaps not send the referrer header? Try following this link, and tell me whether there is a line beginning "Referer:" (yes, mis-spelled like that).

By: john b

john b — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:08:00 +0000

SN – oops. I replaced my link bar with an export of my Bloglines subscription; I’ll add you to the latter now and to the former next time I have time to update it…

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:02:00 +0000

All the links work fine for me.

By: Stephen Newton

Stephen Newton — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 10:52:00 +0000

On the subject of links, you used to link to me under ‘butch brit blogs’ (or something like that). Have I offended thee?

By: Chris Lightfoot

Chris Lightfoot — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 09:26:00 +0000

No, by the look of it they’ve prohibited sending as a referrer any URL which starts
http://www.stalinism.com/shot-by-both-sides/full_post.asp
— rather explicit idiocy, I’d say, and therefore in keeping with the theme of that site. Presumably the intention is to prevent access from any link you’ve included in an individual post, rather than from the link on the front.

TBH I haven’t a clue why anybody reads the wretched thing — every time I’ve looked at it it’s been full of tiresome self-righteous carping. But to each their own, I suppose.