HTMLLinkElement: referrerPolicy property - Web APIs | MDN (original) (raw)
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The referrerPolicy property of the HTMLLinkElement interface reflects the HTML referrerpolicy attribute of the element defining which referrer is sent when fetching the resource.
See the HTTP Referrer-Policy header for details.
Value
A string; one of the following:
The Referer header will be omitted entirely. No referrer information is sent along with requests.
The URL is sent as a referrer when the protocol security level stays the same (e.g.HTTP→HTTP, HTTPS→HTTPS), but isn't sent to a less secure destination (e.g., HTTPS→HTTP).
Only send the origin of the document as the referrer in all cases. The document https://example.com/page.html will send the referrerhttps://example.com/.
Send a full URL when performing a same-origin request, but only send the origin of the document for other cases.
A referrer will be sent for same-site origins, but cross-origin requests will contain no referrer information.
Only send the origin of the document as the referrer when the protocol security level stays the same (e.g., HTTPS→HTTPS), but don't send it to a less secure destination (e.g., HTTPS→HTTP).
strict-origin-when-cross-origin (default)
This is the user agent's default behavior if no policy is specified. Send a full URL when performing a same-origin request, only send the origin when the protocol security level stays the same (e.g., HTTPS→HTTPS), and send no header to a less secure destination (e.g., HTTPS→HTTP).
Send a full URL when performing a same-origin or cross-origin request. This policy will leak origins and paths from TLS-protected resources to insecure origins. Carefully consider the impact of this setting.
Examples
const links = document.getElementsByTagName("link");
links[0].referrerPolicy; // "no-referrer"
Specifications
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| HTML # dom-link-referrerpolicy |