Monday, 3 June 2019

Referer missing in HTTP header of Selenium request

I'm writing some tests with Selenium and noticed, that Referer is missing from the headers. I wrote the following minimal example to test this with https://httpbin.org/headers:

import selenium.webdriver

options = selenium.webdriver.FirefoxOptions()
options.add_argument('--headless')

profile = selenium.webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
profile.set_preference('devtools.jsonview.enabled', False)

driver = selenium.webdriver.Firefox(firefox_options=options, firefox_profile=profile)
wait = selenium.webdriver.support.ui.WebDriverWait(driver, 10)

driver.get('http://www.python.org')
assert 'Python' in driver.title

url = 'https://httpbin.org/headers'
driver.execute_script('window.location.href = "{}";'.format(url))
wait.until(lambda driver: driver.current_url == url)
print(driver.page_source)

driver.close()

Which prints:

<html><head><link rel="alternate stylesheet" type="text/css" href="resource://content-accessible/plaintext.css" title="Wrap Long Lines"></head><body><pre>{
  "headers": {
    "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8", 
    "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br", 
    "Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.5", 
    "Connection": "close", 
    "Host": "httpbin.org", 
    "Upgrade-Insecure-Requests": "1", 
    "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:64.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/64.0"
  }
}
</pre></body></html>

So there is no Referer. However, if I browse to any page and manually execute

window.location.href = "https://httpbin.org/headers"

in the Firefox console, Referer does appear as expected.



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