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Totally agree. As almost no one uses anything like webmentions, this was the way to discover who was linking to your site. (And because the Google link tool did

Totally agree. As almost no one uses anything like webmentions, this was the way to discover who was linking to your site. (And because the Google link tool didn’t seem to return much actual information.)

nerdponx 6y ago
Bring it back! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26401955 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26401955
myfonj 6y ago
From a glance at MDN [1] and specs [3] it seems at least we can still opt-in our sites to suggest visitors user agent to pass full referrer address along outgoing links; there seems to be three ways to do so: # 1. Apache conf Header set Referrer-Policy "no-referrer-when-downgrade"  <meta name="referrer" content="no-referrer-when-downgrade">  <a href="https://…" referrerpolicy="no-referrer-when-downgrade"> This will pass full path and query when navigating between HTTPS to foreign origin. I guess it will be lost in http: to https: redirects. `unsafe-url` value would do it even for HTTP. (Funny all three have different spelling, and that in effect they direct value of a single HTTP header with inherently erroneous spelling.) [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Referrer-Policy https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Re... [2] my guess using `<meta http-equiv="Referrer-Policy" content="no-referrer-when-downgrade">` should do the same, but is not explicitly mentioned anywhere. [3] https://w3c.github.io/webappsec-referrer-policy/ https://w3c.github.io/webappsec-referrer-policy/
- simias 6y ago
  Note that it only works if it's set on the source page, for obvious reasons. So if you set these headers on your page the browser will send the referrer when browsing away from your page, but not when your page is the target.

nerdponx 6y ago

Bring it back! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26401955 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26401955

myfonj 6y ago

From a glance at MDN [1] and specs [3] it seems at least we can still opt-in our sites to suggest visitors user agent to pass full referrer address along outgoing links; there seems to be three ways to do so: # 1. Apache conf Header set Referrer-Policy "no-referrer-when-downgrade"  <meta name="referrer" content="no-referrer-when-downgrade">  <a href="https://…" referrerpolicy="no-referrer-when-downgrade"> This will pass full path and query when navigating between HTTPS to foreign origin. I guess it will be lost in http: to https: redirects. `unsafe-url` value would do it even for HTTP. (Funny all three have different spelling, and that in effect they direct value of a single HTTP header with inherently erroneous spelling.) [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Referrer-Policy https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Re... [2] my guess using `<meta http-equiv="Referrer-Policy" content="no-referrer-when-downgrade">` should do the same, but is not explicitly mentioned anywhere. [3] https://w3c.github.io/webappsec-referrer-policy/ https://w3c.github.io/webappsec-referrer-policy/

simias 6y ago
Note that it only works if it's set on the source page, for obvious reasons. So if you set these headers on your page the browser will send the referrer when browsing away from your page, but not when your page is the target.