Re: Standardize referrer policy

Thanks Anne!

On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 7:55 PM, Jochen Eisinger <eisinger@google.com>
> wrote:
> > With a lot of help from Mike, we've put together a first draft here:
> > https://w3c.github.io/webappsec/specs/referrer-policy/
>
> I think what would be best for Fetch integration is me handing you a
> request and you returning a URL or <i title>none</i>. I tentatively
> called this hook "determine referrer". That way Fetch can decide when
> it wants to expose this information as a header. And that way this is
> also a side-effect free invocation which seems preferable.
>
> See http://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#concept-fetch for the tentative
> hook. Search for [REFERRER].
>

Makes sense. I've updated the hook accordingly:
http://w3c.github.io/webappsec/specs/referrer-policy/#determine-requests-referrer.
Does that make sense?

As for the specifics of what Referrer Policy should do I copied Ian as
> HTML currently has a rather evolved set of steps:
>
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/fetching-resources.html#fetch
> We should take those over somehow or Ian needs to do some handling
> before invoking the Fetch Standard. I don't really have a real
> preference there.
>

Yes, thanks! That had (at least?) two pieces that we'd forgotten to add to
the spec:

1. We shouldn't send referrer information for non-relative schemes (data:,
about:, blob:, etc).
2. srcdoc iframes.

I've now added both to the spec.

-mike

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