HTTP headers / response header

Referrer-Policy

Referrer-Policy: strict-origin-when-cross-origin

What it does

Controls how much of the current URL leaks in the Referer header of outgoing requests.

The gotcha

The modern default (strict-origin-when-cross-origin) already trims paths cross-origin — analytics teams discovering "missing referrer paths" are seeing this.

Debugging headers on a phone

The fastest way to see what Referrer-Policy is actually doing is to send the request and read both sides raw — ReqPad shows auto-generated and custom headers for every request, on all six protocols, with history. Related references: status codes · WWW-Authenticate · Content-Encoding · Transfer-Encoding · ETag · Last-Modified · Expires

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