enable sending referrers??? tried everything!

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  borree · Member · May 13, 2006 at 6:15 pm

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  I keep getting: “sorry, you have to enable sendinge referrers”… But I did! I just signed on, so it never worked before, but a tried Opera as well as Firefox, both browsers are set as described in the WP help page. I am aware of no firewall and no virus program, so I am really clueless. Any ideas?

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  cornell · Member · May 14, 2006 at 7:17 am

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  Borree – are you sure there’s no firewall?

  I had this problem all the time when I had Norton personal firewall running.

  I went over to McAfee and have not had the problem since.

  Changing the settings never made a difference. The only thing I had to do when I had Norton running was stop the firewall, close Firefox and then re-open and re-load the page I was trying to edit. Perhaps you could give that a go.

  HTH

  Collin

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  gmknowles · Member · Jun 2, 2006 at 11:51 am

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  I do not have Norton.

  My issue is that my site edits work fine for some time, then BAM – enable referrers

  I end up constantly removing my cookies, some of which I like to keep.

  This is an annoying problem

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  drmike · Member · Jun 2, 2006 at 12:45 pm

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  gmknowles, are you running a firewall though?

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  nosysnoop · Member · Jun 2, 2006 at 1:39 pm

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  Don’t use the Opera browser. Someone the other day I think was having problems with Opera. I could never use my Blogger blog on Opera. Things were missing.

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  options · Member · Jun 2, 2006 at 3:31 pm

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  ‘enable referrers’ is not a browser related issue, but rather a lame backend design which relays on ‘referrers’ send by a client.

  hopefully, it’s gonna finally be improved due 2.0.3 core release. (see http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2006/06/02/wordpress-203-nonces/)

  gmknowles, gotta make an exlusion for wordpress.com in your personal firewall, so it would allow to send referrers to this host. (see a manual or use a support service for ‘how to’)

  ps and, btw, GOOG “has partnerships to encourage the use of the Safari browser among Apple Computer Inc. customers, Norway’s Opera Software ASA, which makes browsers for computers and phones, among several other browser alternatives“.