- From: David Bruant <bruant.d@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:46:19 +0100
Le 26/01/2012 10:35, Boris Zbarsky a ?crit : > On 1/26/12 9:12 AM, Adam Barth wrote: >>> Should the speculative parser have knowledge of<meta name=referrer>? >> >> That's not what's currently specified. Like many other browser >> features, this feature lets web sites detect that the browser is >> speculatively prefetching resources. If that's a big issue, it's >> something we can try to address. > > It seems like a bigger problem is that if speculative prefetches don't > know about this <meta> then they will leak the referrer, which is > something the site did NOT want to happen. A radically different approach that websites could take to express not wanting the referrer to be sent on requests for a given page would be sending a specific HTTP header in the response. This way, the user agent would know what the intention is before having to read any <meta> header and could do the prefetches without sending the referrer. David
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