Add option to suppress HTTP Referer header.

BUG=none
TEST=start chrome and run tcpdump -A. Should be contain any referer header.

Review URL: http://codereview.chromium.org/600008

git-svn-id: svn://svn.chromium.org/chrome/trunk/src@38587 0039d316-1c4b-4281-b951-d872f2087c98

3 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/chrome/browser/renderer_host/resource_dispatcher_host.cc b/chrome/browser/renderer_host/resource_dispatcher_host.cc
index b92c6a9..4885423 100644
--- a/chrome/browser/renderer_host/resource_dispatcher_host.cc
+++ b/chrome/browser/renderer_host/resource_dispatcher_host.cc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// Copyright (c) 2009 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Copyright (c) 2010 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 // found in the LICENSE file.
 
@@ -379,7 +379,8 @@ void ResourceDispatcherHost::BeginRequest(
   URLRequest* request = new URLRequest(request_data.url, this);
   request->set_method(request_data.method);
   request->set_first_party_for_cookies(request_data.first_party_for_cookies);
-  request->set_referrer(request_data.referrer.spec());
+  request->set_referrer(CommandLine::ForCurrentProcess()->HasSwitch(
+      switches::kNoReferrers) ? std::string() : request_data.referrer.spec());
   request->SetExtraRequestHeaders(request_data.headers);
 
   int load_flags = request_data.load_flags;
@@ -615,7 +616,8 @@ void ResourceDispatcherHost::BeginDownload(
   }
 
   request->set_method("GET");
-  request->set_referrer(referrer.spec());
+  request->set_referrer(CommandLine::ForCurrentProcess()->HasSwitch(
+      switches::kNoReferrers) ? std::string() : referrer.spec());
   request->set_context(request_context);
   request->set_load_flags(request->load_flags() |
       net::LOAD_IS_DOWNLOAD);
@@ -671,7 +673,8 @@ void ResourceDispatcherHost::BeginSaveFile(const GURL& url,
 
   URLRequest* request = new URLRequest(url, this);
   request->set_method("GET");
-  request->set_referrer(referrer.spec());
+  request->set_referrer(CommandLine::ForCurrentProcess()->HasSwitch(
+      switches::kNoReferrers) ? std::string() : referrer.spec());
   // So far, for saving page, we need fetch content from cache, in the
   // future, maybe we can use a configuration to configure this behavior.
   request->set_load_flags(net::LOAD_PREFERRING_CACHE);
diff --git a/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc b/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc
index db0e7d3..8b8fa20 100644
--- a/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc
+++ b/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc
@@ -437,6 +437,9 @@ const char kNoFirstRun[]                    = "no-first-run";
 // Pages may still be able to generate inconsistent data from plugins.
 const char kNoJsRandomness[]                = "no-js-randomness";
 
+// Don't send HTTP-Referer headers.
+const char kNoReferrers[]                   = "no-referrers";
+
 // Don't use a proxy server, always make direct connections. Overrides any
 // other proxy server flags that are passed.
 const char kNoProxyServer[]                 = "no-proxy-server";
diff --git a/chrome/common/chrome_switches.h b/chrome/common/chrome_switches.h
index 8ba978e4..141082e 100644
--- a/chrome/common/chrome_switches.h
+++ b/chrome/common/chrome_switches.h
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// Copyright (c) 2009 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Copyright (c) 2010 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 // found in the LICENSE file.
 
@@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ extern const char kNoEvents[];
 extern const char kNoFirstRun[];
 extern const char kNoJsRandomness[];
 extern const char kNoProxyServer[];
+extern const char kNoReferrers[];
 extern const char kNoSandbox[];
 extern const char kOmniBoxPopupCount[];
 extern const char kOpenInNewWindow[];