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What happens if the user has more than one tab/window open an closes one?

Weirdest case I've observed in the wild is a site that works perfectly without referer header, except for logout. As usual for anything requiring referer it fails without a user-readable message without referer. If referer is sent, the logout procedure switches through multiple redirects and some waiting while js is doing something, server backend probably, too.

Some sites make weird assumptions about the network, the browser, and the user.




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