meta referer in HTML

FYI,

there is a discussion going on about a meta referer. The Pros and Cons have been outlined in the WHAT WG wiki [1].

    This document describes a proposal the "referrer" 
    metadata name. Using the referrer metadata attri-
    bute, a document can control the behavior if the 
    Referer HTTP header attached to requests that 
    originate from the document.


In the markup, it would look like:

    <meta name="referrer" content="never">

with following values : never, always, origin, default

[1]: http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Meta_referrer

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Received on Monday, 30 January 2012 22:09:42 UTC