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by zaroth 3530 days ago
Referrer leaks are such a foot-shoot. There should have been a piece of the URL which never touched the Referrer but also was submitted to the server from the get-go. But obviously an easy edge case to miss in 1991 - 1996 [1] [2].

But this is sad: http://caniuse.com/#feat=referrer-policy

[1] - http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Protocols/HTTP/AsImplemented.html [2] - https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1945