- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 14:06:43 +0200
- To: Peter Lepeska <bizzbyster@gmail.com>
- Cc: WHAT Working Group <whatwg@whatwg.org>, "public-web-perf@w3.org" <public-web-perf@w3.org>
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/ -- https://annevankesteren.nl/
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