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''Phase 2:'' Site-based control. In the second phase, we enable sites to reduce the amount of data transmitted in referrers generated on their site. This is done by the site sending a signal with the HTTP response indicating that outgoing referrers should be reduced. Stripping options should include the same options mentioned in phase 1. One mechanism could be to support [http://www.webkit.org/blog/907/webkit-nightlies-support-html5-noreferrer-link-relation/ the rel="noreferrer" attribute] to omit referers from link clicks. | ''Phase 2:'' Site-based control. In the second phase, we enable sites to reduce the amount of data transmitted in referrers generated on their site. This is done by the site sending a signal with the HTTP response indicating that outgoing referrers should be reduced. Stripping options should include the same options mentioned in phase 1. One mechanism could be to support [http://www.webkit.org/blog/907/webkit-nightlies-support-html5-noreferrer-link-relation/ the rel="noreferrer" attribute] to omit referers from link clicks. | ||
Site-based control also might be accomplished using the meta referrer tag. [http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Meta_referrer See whatwg wiki] and see also {{bug|704320}}. | |||
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