Re: Referrer value for resources fetched from CSS

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Jochen Eisinger <eisinger@google.com> wrote:
> Problem: some network loads include a referrer header, but there is no spec
> that actually details where this header comes from (i.e. does not integrate
> with Fetch currently)
>
> Proposal: for these loads, specify in the referrer spec that if the referrer
> came from a JavaScript global environment, the referrer policy of that
> global environment should be taken into account. Otherwise, the default
> referrer policy should be used.
>
> does that make sense?

It seems suboptimal. I think it would be better for stylesheets to use
the referrer policy of their associated document. When you change the
referrer policy for a given document, e.g., to none, you wouldn't want
stylesheets to still leak the referrer through image fetches or some
such.


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Received on Monday, 5 October 2015 14:33:24 UTC