No refferer when open link in popup window

[andreykrasnodar]

I am making my own project with TChromium (VCL component) and have an error.
When user taps a link which should open a website in a new window, the website opens in the same window.
I used simple code

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procedure TForm1.Chromium1BeforePopup(Sender: TObject;
  const browser: ICefBrowser; const frame: ICefFrame; const targetUrl,
  targetFrameName: ustring; targetDisposition: TCefWindowOpenDisposition;
  userGesture: Boolean; var popupFeatures: TCefPopupFeatures;
  var windowInfo: TCefWindowInfo; var client: ICefClient;
  var settings: TCefBrowserSettings; var noJavascriptAccess: Boolean;
  out Result: Boolean);
begin
  Result := True;
  Chromium1.Browser.MainFrame.LoadUrl(targetUrl);
end;

but now there is no referrer:

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document.write(this.document.referrer);

displays nothing. What should I do?

[andreykrasnodar]

Is that code correct:

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procedure TForm1.Chromium1BeforePopup(Sender: TObject;
  const browser: ICefBrowser; const frame: ICefFrame; const targetUrl,
  targetFrameName: ustring; targetDisposition: TCefWindowOpenDisposition;
  userGesture: Boolean; var popupFeatures: TCefPopupFeatures;
  var windowInfo: TCefWindowInfo; var client: ICefClient;
  var settings: TCefBrowserSettings; var noJavascriptAccess: Boolean;
  out Result: Boolean);
var
  Header: ICefStringMultimap;
  Request: ICefRequest;
  Data: ICefPostData;
begin
  Result:=True;
  Header := TCefStringMultimapOwn.Create;
  Header.Append('Referer', Chromium1.Browser.MainFrame.Url);
  Request := TCefRequestRef.New;
  Request.Assign(targetUrl, 'GET', Data, Header);
  Chromium1.Browser.MainFrame.LoadRequest(Request);
end;

?

P.S. Here I am trying to send request to my site sending request with appended string "Referrer". What should I append more?

[salvadordf]

Hi,

The new popup window needs to be created following the instructions in the CEF code comments in order to keep the "referrer" (and also the POST information among other things)

I just wrote this in another thread about popup widows :
viewtopic.php?f=10&p=5682#p5682

Try using the PopupBrowser2 demo code as a template for your application and you should see the right "document.referrer" value.

[andreykrasnodar]

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procedure TForm1.Chromium1BeforePopup(Sender: TObject;
  const browser: ICefBrowser; const frame: ICefFrame; const targetUrl,
  targetFrameName: ustring; targetDisposition: TCefWindowOpenDisposition;
  userGesture: Boolean; var popupFeatures: TCefPopupFeatures;
  var windowInfo: TCefWindowInfo; var client: ICefClient;
  var settings: TCefBrowserSettings; var noJavascriptAccess: Boolean;
  out Result: Boolean);
var
  Header: ICefStringMultimap;
  Request: ICefRequest;
  Data: ICefPostData;
begin
  Result:=True;
  Header := TCefStringMultimapOwn.Create;
  Header.Append('Referer', Chromium1.Browser.MainFrame.Url);
  Request := TCefRequestRef.New;
  Request.Assign(targetUrl, 'GET', Data, Header);
  Chromium1.Browser.MainFrame.LoadRequest(Request);
end;

This code works great, but sometimes application crashes with message
APPCRASH
5efcf65f
libcef.dll
3.2454.1344.0
562d8f27
80000003
00186429
6.3.9600.2.0.0.256.48
1049
1: 5861
2: 5861822e1919d7c014bbb064c64908b2
3: d1d9
4: d1d94a13d3609d6b740644c12508f581

[andreykrasnodar]

Due to errors I wrote a simple javascript code which changes _blank to _self. No errors more.

[igor666]

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procedure TForm1.Chromium1BeforePopup(Sender: TObject;
  const browser: ICefBrowser; const frame: ICefFrame; const targetUrl,
  targetFrameName: ustring; targetDisposition: TCefWindowOpenDisposition;
  userGesture: Boolean; var popupFeatures: TCefPopupFeatures;
  var windowInfo: TCefWindowInfo; var client: ICefClient;
  var settings: TCefBrowserSettings; var noJavascriptAccess: Boolean;
  out Result: Boolean);
var
  Header: ICefStringMultimap;
  Request: ICefRequest;
  Data: ICefPostData;
begin
  Result:=True;
  Header := TCefStringMultimapOwn.Create;
  Header.Append('Referer', Chromium1.Browser.MainFrame.Url);
  Request := TCefRequestRef.New;
  Request.Assign(targetUrl, 'GET', Data, Header);
  Chromium1.Browser.MainFrame.LoadRequest(Request);
end;

This code works great, but sometimes application crashes with message
APPCRASH
5efcf65f
libcef.dll
3.2454.1344.0
562d8f27
80000003
00186429
6.3.9600.2.0.0.256.48
1049
1: 5861
2: 5861822e1919d7c014bbb064c64908b2
3: d1d9
4: d1d94a13d3609d6b740644c12508f581

This example will work only in simple cases when the link from site A leads directly to site B. And, for example, this will not work with the yandex search engine, since in Chromium1.Browser.MainFrame.Url there will be an httpS search link, and in targetUrl there will be a direct link to the site from the search result. As a result, we get an empty referrer at the transition.
I am currently watching an example of PopupBrowser2, but I just can’t figure out how to redirect the transition to the current window without opening a new one. Help please, can this be done?

[dilfich]

console.log("RF: " + document.referrer);
Maybe something like this. there is a referrer, JS: RF: https://yandex.ru/search/?text=fgfg&lr=37143

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  Header := TCefStringMultimapOwn.Create;
  Request := TCefRequestRef.New;
  Request.Assign(targetUrl, '', nil, Header);
  Request.SetReferrer(Browser.MainFrame.Url, REFERRER_POLICY_NEVER_CLEAR_REFERRER);
  Chromium1.Browser.MainFrame.LoadRequest(Request);

[igor666]

console.log("RF: " + document.referrer);
Maybe something like this. there is a referrer, JS: RF: https://yandex.ru/search/?text=fgfg&lr=37143

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  Header := TCefStringMultimapOwn.Create;
  Request := TCefRequestRef.New;
  Request.Assign(targetUrl, '', nil, Header);
  Request.SetReferrer(Browser.MainFrame.Url, REFERRER_POLICY_NEVER_CLEAR_REFERRER);
  Chromium1.Browser.MainFrame.LoadRequest(Request);

This can be done, but this is not a faithful referrer. If in Chrome to remove target = _blank for the link and load it, it will be seen that the referrer is simply https://yandex.ru there. I would like some kind of method that would leave all the settings and requests as is, when redirecting the download. I don’t want to parse downloaded pages and delete target = _blank on all links.

[dilfich]

This can be done, but this is not a faithful referrer. If in Chrome to remove target = _blank for the link and load it, it will be seen that the referrer is simply https://yandex.ru there. I would like some kind of method that would leave all the settings and requests as is, when redirecting the download. I don’t want to parse downloaded pages and delete target = _blank on all links.

Play with the settings

Request.SetReferrer(Browser.MainFrame.Url, REFERRER_POLICY_NEVER_CLEAR_REFERRER);
RF: https://yandex.ru/search/?text=fgfg&lr=37143

Request.SetReferrer(Browser.MainFrame.Url, REFERRER_POLICY_ORIGIN);
RF: https://yandex.ru/

[igor666]

I gave Yandex as an example, but the options may be different. Thus, we decided a specific example, and not the situation as a whole. Indeed, in one case, the referrer transfer can be with the flag REFERRER_POLICY_ORIGIN, in another REFERRER_POLICY_NEVER_CLEAR_REFERRER, etc. And there is no request in the onBeforePopup event to check which flag should be for the current request.