[whatwg] several messages about a way to disable referer headers for links
Krzysztof Żelechowski
giecrilj at stegny.2a.pl
Sat Nov 3 10:27:50 PDT 2007
Dnia 03-11-2007, sob o godzinie 08:42 +0000, Ian Hickson napisał(a):
> On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote:
> >
> > I quite like this proposal, but while we're at this early stage, it
> > might be nice to correct the spelling to "referrer" on the attribute...
> > fix a mistake made long ago by the HTTP guys...
>
> Yeah... the difficulty is that fixing the spelling means being
> inconsistent, which is at least as confusing to everyone.
>
>
> On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Tyler Close wrote:
> >
> > [...]
>
> Ok, I've added a rel value similar to "nofollow" called "noreferer" that
> does this.
>
While we are unable correct the spelling of "referer", we certainly need
not duplicate it for "noreferrer". There must be some end to this
self-humiliation.
Cheers,
Chris
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