Problem with torrentbytes

[jerseyeo]

I was able to sign up and browse the site for over an hour, now when I try to sign back in, it will say "Please enable referers in your firewall or browser and try again". Can anybody please tell me why this now appears? Thank you!

[gamer4eva]

Something wrong with your firewall...try to reconfigure it and if you are using a proxy to sign in then don't.

[jerseyeo]

Something wrong with your firewall...try to reconfigure it and if you are using a proxy to sign in then don't.
thank you for your assistance but I'm not using a proxy and I also turned off my firewall and it still appears

[greymatter]

That site really sucks and its behavior is sometimes strange. I couldnt get into the site for last 2 weeks. Says my userid or password is incorrect. And there email system is not working so to reset the password.

[drago2007]

I had to enable referrers for that site in firefox and I was finally able to logon. Then it told me my password was incorrect as well. Luckily the reset pw email worked for me.

[decay]

I was able to sign up and browse the site for over an hour, now when I try to sign back in, it will say "Please enable referers in your firewall or browser and try again".

what are referers?

[lysine]

what are referers?

do people not know how to use google anymore?

[drago2007]

referer or referrer (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Referer&redirect=no)

The referrer, or HTTP referrer, identifies, from the point of view of a internet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet) webpage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webpage) or resource, the address of the webpage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webpage) (commonly the URL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL), the more generic URI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier) or the i18n (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I18n) updated IRI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_Resource_Identifier)) of the resource which links to it. By checking the referrer, the new page can see where the request came from. referrer logging (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log) is used to allow websites (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website) and web servers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_server) to identify where people are visiting them from, for promotional or security purposes. Since the referrer can easily be spoofed (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Referrer_spoofing&action=edit) (faked), however, it is of limited use in this regard except on a casual basis.

If you use Firefox you can block sending referrer information by following these steps:

1. In the address bar of your Firefox browser type: about:config and hit Enter.
2. In the Filter input field type: network.http.sendreferrerHeader.
3. Double click on the preference name.
4. Change the value from 2 to 0 and hit OK.In my case, this was already done previously so I changed the value back to 2 and downloaded a Firefox extension called refcontrol (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/953/) what gets sent as the HTTP referer on a per-site basis.

It wasn't until I tried the url in IE that I found out it was Firefox that had the issue and not my firewall.