svn commit: r1073641 - /wicket/trunk/wicket-core/src/main/java/org/apache/wicket/markup/html/link/ExternalLink.java

[mg...@apache.org]

Author: mgrigorov
Date: Wed Feb 23 08:46:32 2011
New Revision: 1073641

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1073641&view=rev
Log:
WICKET-3469 Referrer Leaking with ExternalLink

Add a javadoc explaining the possible problem.


Modified:
    wicket/trunk/wicket-core/src/main/java/org/apache/wicket/markup/html/link/ExternalLink.java

Modified: wicket/trunk/wicket-core/src/main/java/org/apache/wicket/markup/html/link/ExternalLink.java
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/wicket/trunk/wicket-core/src/main/java/org/apache/wicket/markup/html/link/ExternalLink.java?rev=1073641&r1=1073640&r2=1073641&view=diff
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--- wicket/trunk/wicket-core/src/main/java/org/apache/wicket/markup/html/link/ExternalLink.java (original)
+++ wicket/trunk/wicket-core/src/main/java/org/apache/wicket/markup/html/link/ExternalLink.java Wed Feb 23 08:46:32 2011
@@ -20,11 +20,20 @@ import org.apache.wicket.markup.Componen
 import org.apache.wicket.model.IModel;
 import org.apache.wicket.model.Model;
 import org.apache.wicket.request.cycle.RequestCycle;
+import org.apache.wicket.request.flow.RedirectToUrlException;
 import org.apache.wicket.util.string.UrlUtils;
 
 /**
+ * <p>
  * A simple anchor link (&lt;a href="http://url"&gt;) pointing to any URL. Usually this is used for
  * links to destinations outside of Wicket.
+ * </p>
+ * 
+ * <p>
+ * <strong>Note</strong>: in the case when the support for cookies in the browser is disabled the
+ * user's jsessionid will leak in the 'Referrer' header after clicking this link. If this is a
+ * problem for the application then better use {@link Link} which redirects to the new URL using
+ * {@link RedirectToUrlException}.
  * 
  * @author Juergen Donnerstag
  */