Goal
- Protect users from disclosing any sensitive information about their navigation.
- Mastering the information sent by the server.
- Strengthen user confidence in the use of their data
Implementation
For each page of the website, configure the server to send the HTTP Referrer-Policy header with the value, in order of preference:
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no-referrer -
same-origin -
strict-origin -
strict-origin-when-cross-origin
Control
Check for each page of the website, that there is a HTTP Referrer-Policy header with the value, in order of preference:
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no-referrer -
same-origin -
strict-origin -
strict-origin-when-cross-origin
Business application and benefits
The rules should be applied to your projects from the design phase through to post-implementation , and they should be understood by all professionals with web and customer experience (CX) responsibilities: from strategy to operations, marketers to project managers, and editorial to technical staff. The benefits of using this ruleset are numerous, including improving customer satisfaction, web performance, and e-commerce, and expanding your client base, while also decreasing your errors and costs.
The objective of these rules and the Opquast community mission is ‘making the web better’ for your customers and for everyone! Opquast rules cover the key major areas of risk that can negatively affect website users such as privacy, ecodesign, accessibility and security.
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