Hey all, this is a belated announcement of the <meta name="referrer"> feature. It allows web sites to specify different policies for sending referrers, without resorting to ugly redirect hacks. This feature is currently a proposal: http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Meta_referrer
The implementation of the feature was tracked here: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72674 I'm sorry that this mail goes out after the feature has landed. Thank you, Maciej, for pointing this out. The feature is also not behind a flag. If any of the ports would prefer, I can add such a flag. In order to make the feature work with your port, you might need to add some extra plumbing. Here's a list of changes that were required for Chromium (AFAIK it works out of the box for Safari): - the chromium out-of-process network stack would enforce the referrer policy on redirects, so the referrer policy needed to be plumbed there - context menus in chromium are also out-of-process, so the referrer policy needed to be plumbed there for "open in new tab" etc - the tab navigation history in chromium is out-of-process, as well as storing the navigation history on disk for session restore, so the policy had to be plumbed there as well The feature is covered by layout tests in http/tests/security/referrer-policy-*html Looking forward to your comments best -jochen
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