Re: Referrer value for resources fetched from CSS

I tested with <style>

For <link> the main difference is what URL to use as referrer (same for
@import), no?

Agreed that all three should be spec'd

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 4:25 PM Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:

> On 10/7/15 10:19 AM, Jochen Eisinger wrote:
> > 1) create a stylesheet, update the referrer URL (using the history API),
> > insert an element that matches a rule which loads an external resource
> >
> > Here, Chrome and Firefox use the URL from before the history API
> > modifications.
>
> So just to make sure we're talking about the same thing, you were using
> a <style> element here, not a <link> element?
>
> > I think in any case, referrer and referrer policy should behave the
> > same. Anne raised the point on IRC that it's odd to ignore changes, so I
> > propose to spec that both the referrer URL as well as the referre! r
> > policy from when the network request is triggered should be used.
>
> I think we should be clear on whether we're talking about the <style>
> element case, the <link> element case, or the @import case.  We should
> specify behavior for all of these.
>
> -Boris
>
>