Saving a link in Epiphany does not send cookies or set referer

Binary package hint: epiphany-browser

If Epiphany's cookies privacy option is set to "Only from sites you visit" (the default) and you visit a site that uses cookies, then if you right click on a link (to a resource on the same site) and select either the "Download Link" or the "Save Link As..." option, then the HTTP GET request sent to the server does not include either the "Cookie:" header or the "Referer:" header.

Repeating the process with the cookies privacy option set to "Always accept" causes the "Cookie:" header to be sent to the server, but not the "Referer:" header.

Depending on the website in question one or both of the "Cookie:" and/or "Referer:" header may be required to download the link correctly. This may be two separate problems. Following a link normally (left click) sends both headers.

The problems can be confirmed by using Wireshark to examine the HTTP headers.

Info: Ubuntu 8.04, epiphany-browser-2.22.2-0ubuntu0.8.04.2

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jun 21 16:31:09 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/epiphany-gecko
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: epiphany-gecko 2.22.2-0ubuntu0.8.04.2
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: epiphany-browser
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic x86_64