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Fetch API: RequestInit.referrer

Category
Network / Connectivity
Type
New or changed feature
Status
Enabled by default (Chrome 47)
Intent stage
None

Summary

This feature enables users to specifying request's referrer as a construct argument. Note this is different from Request.referrer which was already introduced. In service workers, a captured request had the service worker's referrer (i.e. the service worker's script URL), but with this feature the request keeps the original referrer.

Standards & signals

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Request/Request

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