“Sorry, you need to enable sending referrers, for

the full error is:
“Sorry, you need to enable sending referrers, for this feature to work.”

open up your firewall and turn off “privacy settings” or allow referrers.

i have referrers blocked in opera and this new Security feature is a pita.

Now, I’ve started to get this error in the “post preview” section when I go to enter a new post.
anyone seen anything like it?
Post Preview (updated when post is saved)
Filed under:
Database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 3]
SELECT category_id, cat_name, category_nicename, category_description, category_parent FROM wp_categories, wp_post2cat WHERE wp_post2cat.category_id = cat_ID AND wp_post2cat.post_id =
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /fpress/wp-includes/template-functions-category.php on line 90
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Very odd. pre 1.2 upgrade from 1.2 beta, there was no such error.

This is, unfortunately, a major area where privacy and security clash. Referers are by no means foolproof, but they are an important first line of defense in many Web apps. Weblogs and web boards are one example, but they are also important for image scripts which attempt to disallow remote linking. However, there are legitimate potential privacy issues with allowing a site to figure out what site its clients are coming from. The debate seems endless, and probably will be.
What I think really needs to happen is that referers should be blocked if the referer is in a different domain than the destination. That would preserve privacy -information that someone goes from one page on a site to another page on the same site is hardly a privacy violation- while allowing the security of referer-validation for Web apps which need it. Unfortunately, no browser or firewall that I know of allows this feature. Until then, I allow the sending of referers but carefully look at links before I click them; if I suspect that I do not want that kind of relationship drawn I will copy/paste the link URL rather than clicking on it, thus neatly sidestepping the referer issue.
This may be something you should consider too.

Sorry for the dumb question, but how and where do you enable referrers in Firefox? I have been looking over and over again, I cannot find it. *blush*

install the quick prefs extension from https://texturizer.net/firefox/index.html

he was perhaps asking abt enabling which is ofcourse on by default ??
turtelina, check ur firewalls or antiviruses for a similar setting.

someone posted this a while back:
The solution is to edit wp-admin/admin-functions.php
on line 369/370 you have a function
function check_admin_referer()
I changed that to
function check_admin_referer() {
$adminurl = strtolower(get_settings(a€?siteurla€?)).a€?/wp-admina€?;
$referer = strtolower($_SERVER[a€?HTTP_REFERERa€?]);
if ( !strstr($referer, $adminurl) ) {
//die(a€?Sorry, you need to enable sending referrers, for this feature to work.a€?);
$referer = a€?localhost";
}
}


I encountered the “must enable referers” error when my site was set up with a siteurl that started with “https://” but i was doing some admin stuff with SSL and the url was “https://”.
This makes it complain about the referer not matching.
Here is a work-around for this problem that still preserves the normal referer checking:
function check_admin_referer() {
# don’t worry if one of them is https and the other is just http
$adminurl = strtolower(get_settings(‘siteurl’)).’/wp-admin’;
preg_match(“/^https?:\/\/(.*)/”, $adminurl, $matches);
$adminurl = $matches[1];
$referer = strtolower($_SERVER[‘HTTP_REFERER’]);
preg_match(“/^https?:\/\/(.*)/”, $referer, $matches);
$referer = $matches[1];
if ( !strstr($referer, $adminurl) ) {
die(‘Sorry, you need to enable sending referrers, for this feature to work.’);
}
}

Hey what is up… changing the code on line 371 worked for me but I get a new error about not being able to edit the headers. I simple click the go back button then click the manage links button and all of the changes are there. But it is really annoying having to do that. Do any of you guys know how to fix that problem? The error that I am getting is this:
Warning: Division by zero in /allenstafford/wp-admin/admin-functions.php on line 371
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /allenstafford/wp-admin/admin-functions.php:371) in /allenstafford/wp-admin/link-manager.php on line 269
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /allenstafford/wp-admin/admin-functions.php:371) in /allenstafford/wp-admin/link-manager.php on line 270

Um…but what if you *don’t* have the option of configuring referrers? I sometimes update my blog from work…and if firewalls are truly the culprit, I don’t have any way to fix this probelm, short of disabling it. ?? Perhaps another solution is in order?

Check that you can receive cookies in your browser too.

Same problem, fixed it by disabling Privacy Control, all of the other settings were OK on browser, etc. pvk

oops, forgot to include I’m using NIS 2004 pro