[whatwg] Referer header sent with <a ping>?

[Julian Reschke]

Ian Hickson wrote:
> Interesting.
> 
> I see two ways forward here. One would be to redefine Referer to remove 
> the relative URI thing, since, to my knowledge at least, nobody uses it.

That's IMHO not sufficient reason to remove it. It's not broken.

> The other is that we can define the magic value to be "#PING" instead, 
> since that's a non-conforming Referer value right now.
> 
> Would that work for people? dolphinling? Darin?

It's not conforming, so are you suggesting to use a non-conforming value?

Me confused.

Could you please state what problem you are trying to solve, and why it 
needs to involve the Referer header?

>>> We add two headers, "X-Ping-From" which has the value of the page that 
>>> had the link, and "X-Ping-To" which has the value of the page that is 
>>> being opened.
>> You don't need any new headers.
>>
>> Define a content type, and send the information you want to transmit in 
>> the request body.
> 
> The idea, as others have noted, is to keep the entity body empty so as to 
> avoid any issues with servers that ignore the headers and process the body 
> (which is relatively common).

Are you saying it wasn't a good idea to use POST after all because of 
these risks?

BR, Julian