[TYPO3-dev] Referercheck for jumpurls

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Hi!

Stefan Neufeind wrote:
> just stumbled again across the problem that jumpurls have their referer
> checked. There is a long-standing ticket about that:
>
> http://forge.typo3.org/issues/17227
>
> If would be great if somebody could please explain what the point of
> referer-checking for a jumpurl (redirect) is or if it might be possible
> to get rid of the check for jumpurls (solution 1 proposed in the issue).

I guess it exists to prevent hotlinking. Of course, this does not truly 
prevent it but lowers the chances of hotlinking.

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