httphttp-headersreferrer-policy

Remove http referer

Is it a way to remove or hide http referer information in request header? i want to remove http referrer information of users who goes to other site from my site using a script possibly in javascript python or django

example:

Host    slogout.espncricinfo.com
User-Agent  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0    
Accept  text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8    
Accept-Language en-us,en;q=0.5    
Accept-Encoding gzip, deflate    
Accept-Charset  ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7    
Connection  keep-alive
Referer http://slogout.espncricinfo.com/index.php?page=index&level=login
Solution

  • As of 2015 this is how you prevent sending the Referer header:

    Just add this to the head section of the web page:

     <meta name="referrer" content="no-referrer" />

    This works both for links and for Ajax requests made by JavaScript code on the page.

    Other valid meta options include:

    <meta name="referrer" content="unsafe-url" />
<meta name="referrer" content="origin" />
<meta name="referrer" content="no-referrer-when-downgrade" />
<meta name="referrer" content="origin-when-cross-origin" />

    • See if it works for your browser here: http://caniuse.com/#feat=referrer-policy

    • See specs here: http://w3c.github.io/webappsec/specs/referrer-policy/

    Also note that browsers now send the Origin header (with CORS requests and POST requests, see here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Origin) which includes domain and port, and, as far as I know, cannot be removed. If you use <meta name="referrer" content="origin" /> the referrer will contain similar information to the Origin header, which is already good from a privacy point of view, since it will hide the exact page the user is in.

    Update:

    If you want to remove the referrer by using JavaScript only, you may add the appropriate meta tag dynamically just before making the Ajax request. This JavaScript will add <meta name="referrer" content="no-referrer" /> to head section of the web page:

    var meta = document.createElement('meta');
meta.name = "referrer";
meta.content = "no-referrer";
document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(meta);