Chrome Policy on Referer Re: What gives? from Karl Dubost on 2020-10-27 (www-qa@w3.org from October 2020)

From: Karl Dubost <karl@la-grange.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 09:23:50 +0900
To: Bill Thayer <billthayerchicago@gmail.com>
Cc: www-qa@w3.org
Message-Id: <52B20E88-4DDB-46BB-8979-02166B30E3ED@la-grange.net>

Hi everyone on the list,

The reason the validator results are broken on the validator for Bill is because of a change of Policy in Chrome [1] with regards to HTTP referer header. This is still working in Safari and Firefox (for now).

So on a Bill’s site [2], the icon in the bottom page is sending a request to https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer&amp;verbose=1


But the referer is now just https://penelope.uchicago.edu/ hence the strange behavior.

There’s nothing to do to fix that and such dependency issue is likely to increase given the propension of browsers to tighten the privacy issues. 


[1]: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2020/07/referrer-policy-new-chrome-default
[2]: https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Navy/home.html



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Karl Dubost 🐄
http://www.la-grange.net/karl/

Received on Tuesday, 27 October 2020 00:24:10 UTC