Re: getting rid of anonymizing redirects

Hi Chris,

Looks like this is already supported:
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics.html#link-type-noreferrer.

Just need to educate web developers to you use it.

Peter


From:  Chris Bentzel <cbentzel@google.com>
Date:  Tuesday, October 7, 2014 at 8:07 AM
To:  Peter Lepeska <bizzbyster@gmail.com>, WHAT Working Group
<whatwg@whatwg.org>, <public-web-perf@w3.org>
Subject:  Re: getting rid of anonymizing redirects

There's meta referrer on the document. Combining this with <a ping> or
Beacon for click tracking may remove many of the needs for redirects. Or do
you want something that is per-link rather than per-document?
On Tue Oct 07 2014 at 7:59:51 AM Peter Lepeska <bizzbyster@gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
> 
> Some web site developers use redirects to strip out referrer headers from
> requests issued from users clicking links on their site. This causes a
> blocking round trip and so has a really big impact on web performance.
> 
> Can we give developers an alternative to this technique that will not incur a
> performance penalty? For instance, can linkable elements support a
> ³no-referrer² attribute or something similar?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Peter