HttpWebRequest does not add referer header to redirects when AllowAutoRedirect is true

[cubesnyc]

According to
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.net.httpwebrequest.referer?view=netframework-4.8
"If the AllowAutoRedirect property is true, the Referer property is set automatically when the request is redirected to another site."

However, this behavior does not happen.

Quick reproducible code:

            var request = HttpWebRequest.CreateHttp( "https://httpstat.us/302" );
            request.AllowAutoRedirect = true;
            await request.GetResponseAsync();

[davidsh]

According to
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.net.httpwebrequest.referer?view=netframework-4.8
"If the AllowAutoRedirect property is true, the Referer property is set automatically when the request is redirected to another site."

I tried the repro on .NET Framework as well as .NET Core. Neither set the HttpWebRequest.Referer property automatically on autoredirect handling. Nor does any 'Referer' request header get sent automatically on the the wire.

I believe that the documentation is incorrect and needs to be fixed.

[scalablecory]

@cubesnyc, would you like to create a PR in the dotnet-api-docs repo?

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