meta referer in HTML from Karl Dubost on 2012-01-30 (public-tracking@w3.org from January 2012)

From: Karl Dubost <karld@opera.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:08:55 -0500
To: "public-tracking@w3.org (public-tracking@w3.org)" <public-tracking@w3.org>
Message-Id: <3E7C445F-16BA-409C-BA8D-1840442429C2@opera.com>

FYI,

there is a discussion going on about a meta referer. The Pros and Cons have been outlined in the WHAT WG wiki [1].

    This document describes a proposal the "referrer" 
    metadata name. Using the referrer metadata attri-
    bute, a document can control the behavior if the 
    Referer HTTP header attached to requests that 
    originate from the document.


In the markup, it would look like:

    <meta name="referrer" content="never">

with following values : never, always, origin, default

[1]: http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Meta_referrer

-- 
Karl Dubost - http://dev.opera.com/
Developer Relations, Opera Software

Received on Monday, 30 January 2012 22:09:42 UTC