scrub-referrer directive?

• From: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
• Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 17:04:11 -0700
• To: public-web-security@w3.org
• Message-ID: <BANLkTi=Xc7j2c4x5=h-HLm7zUJ7r4Byx0g@mail.gmail.com>

Lots of sensitive information leaks in the Referer header.  This paper
has a bunch of scary examples:

http://w2spconf.com/2011/papers/privacyVsProtection.pdf

I'm not sure whether we can scrub the Referer header by default
because lots of folks use the Referer header for all kinds of crazy
stuff, but we should at least give sites an easy hook for scrubbing
it.  There probably should be a couple options:

1) Remove header entirely.
2) Strip down the Referer to just the origin.

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61576

Should we add a "scrub-referrer" directive to CSP?

Adam

Received on Friday, 27 May 2011 00:13:45 UTC