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Single Sign on for Furries

30 points by surprisetalk

by sudobash1

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Not at all related to the article, but I think this is the first time I have seen a page modify its contents based on the referrer site. If you click the link (and your browser uses the "Referer" header), it will have a blurb at the top welcoming hacker news readers. If you copy the URL manually, it does not.
You can also see this using curl:
```
    curl -H "Referer: https://news.ycombinator.com/" https://cendyne.dev/posts/2025-08-15-single-sign-on-for-furries.html | grep hacker
```
If you remove the -H "Referer: ..." part, it will no longer contain the word "hacker".
Honestly, I am a little surprised that Firefox is sending the "Referer" header. It feels like a relic from the days when we (mostly) weren't concerned with being tracked. I suppose that it must have practical uses that would break without it.

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