Re: Referrer: change from <meta> with respect to origin

The example at
http://w3c.github.io/webappsec/specs/referrer-policy/#referrer-policy-state-origin
says something along these lines already. I can certainly make that more
explicit:
https://github.com/w3c/webappsec/commit/edec9ef968769fc1354c3ed6610bb0d7711a79f5

-mike

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On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote:

> Jonas raised this over on the WHATWG list:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2014Aug/0107.html
>
> On http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Meta_referrer "always" has an
> annotation that it will include a referrer even when going from HTTPS
> to HTTP. "origin" has no such annotation. Per the new Referrer Policy
> draft it seems Origin Only would need such an annotation. I guess the
> question is whether this change in policy is desired or whether they
> should be distinct settings.
>
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