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Fetch API: referrer policy

Category

Network / Connectivity

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 52)

Intent stage

None

Summary

This feature enables users to get / set a Request's referrer policy which affect's the "Referer" HTTP header.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/
• Firefox: In development
• Safari: In development
• Web developers: No signals
• Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=532385

Docs: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/03/referrer-and-cache-control-apis-for-fetch/ https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/GlobalFetch/fetch

Samples: https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/fetch-api/fetch-referrer-policy.html

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