Re: [whatwg] getting rid of anonymizing redirects

On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Peter Lepeska <bizzbyster@gmail.com> wrote:
> Some web site developers use redirects to strip out referrer headers from
> requests issued from users clicking links on their site. This causes a
> blocking round trip and so has a really big impact on web performance.
>
> Can we give developers an alternative to this technique that will not incur
> a performance penalty? For instance, can linkable elements support a
> ³no-referrer² attribute or something similar?

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics.html#link-type-noreferrer
http://w3c.github.io/webappsec/specs/referrer-policy/


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Received on Tuesday, 7 October 2014 12:07:09 UTC