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W3C Invites Implementations of Referrer Policy

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Published:: 26 January 2017

The Web Application Security Working Group invites implementations of the Candidate Recommendation of Referrer Policy. This specification describes how Web authors can set a referrer policy for documents they create, and describes the impact on the Referer HTTP header for outgoing requests and navigations.

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