On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Anne van Kesteren <ann...@annevk.nl> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Peter Lepeska <bizzbys...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Some web site developers use redirects to strip out referrer headers from >> requests issued from users clicking links on their site. This causes a >> blocking round trip and so has a really big impact on web performance. >> >> Can we give developers an alternative to this technique that will not incur >> a performance penalty? For instance, can linkable elements support a >> ³no-referrer² attribute or something similar? > > https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics.html#link-type-noreferrer > http://w3c.github.io/webappsec/specs/referrer-policy/
There’s also `<meta name=referrer content=…>`: https://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Meta_referrer
