Re: [fetch] Add a bit to Opaque Responses to distinguish redirects (#79) from Alex Russell on 2015-07-15 (public-webapps-github@w3.org from July 2015)

From: Alex Russell <notifications@github.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 02:51:06 -0700
To: whatwg/fetch <fetch@noreply.github.com>
Message-ID: <whatwg/fetch/issues/79/121559444@github.com>

No, I understand what you were saying; I don't think it's easy or reasonable. There are many systems that legitimately have redirects for "own content" but have off-origin redirects for navigation exfiltration; i.e. a secure open redirector to filter out referrer information.

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