Re: Standardize referrer policy

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:42 AM, John Kemp <john@jkemp.net> wrote:

> On 06/11/2014 02:31 PM, Jochen Eisinger wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:21 AM, John Kemp <john@jkemp.net
>> <mailto:john@jkemp.net>> wrote:
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>>     How does this draft relate to the 'rel=noreferrer' attribute on <a/>
>>     tags? I see you refer to the "Javascript Global Environment" and one
>>     can imagine that this environment *might* impact how the
>>     rel=noreferrer is processed in the same way you describe via
>>     inheritance from the "global" environment, but it might be helpful
>>     to spell that out (and mention it in the introduction too).
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>> that's covered in step 6 of the "Set request's Referer header"
>> algorithm, no?
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> OK, yes, that looks good, presuming that you are only addressing
> Javascript, and that the issue you mention is addressed.
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> There were two specific things I was interested in:
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> * That the rel=noreferrer is not mentioned in the introduction, so it is
> not clear there is any link  between this document and that particular
> usage.
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ok, I can fix that.


> * That this appears to be all related only to the Javascript environment,
> and yet it is an interaction between two HTML declarations. It is, I
> believe, still possible to parse (and interpret) HTML without using
> Javascript - but I presume this is considered beyond the scope of this
> document?
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It's supposed to also work for HTML only (or any other language binding). I
defer to Mike on the language used to describe that


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>>     This issue is mentioned in
>>     http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/__Meta_referrer
>>     <http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Meta_referrer>, which appears to be a
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>>     good (historical at least) related work for what you are doing here
>>     (and you might want to list it in the references since it appears to
>>     have some of the same content as this draft).
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>> It's linked to in paragraph 7
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> Also list it under "informative references"?
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> will do


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> Regards,
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> - johnk
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>> best
>> -jochen
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>>     Regards,
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>>     - johnk
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>>         best
>>         -jochen
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