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Bug 9017 - The origin argument should be used to determine whether Referer is to be omitted for XMLHttpRequest. I'm not a 100% sure at the moment when that would matter, but it seems safer.
Summary: The origin argument should be used to determine whether Referer is to be omit...
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2010-02-16 10:02 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2018-10-29 06:12 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2010-02-16 10:02:41 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#fetch

Comment:
The origin argument should be used to determine whether Referer is to be
omitted for XMLHttpRequest. I'm not a 100% sure at the moment when that would
matter, but it seems safer.

Posted from: 213.236.208.22
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-02-23 01:54:23 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: It's not safer, it's wrong. :-) The 'origin' parameter is only used for deciding if there should be an Origin header, as part of the origin privacy stuff.
Comment 2 Anne 2010-02-23 11:16:54 UTC 
It is also used for its value. Having said, I think this will work out fine. I cannot imagine a situation where you can get an XMLHttpRequest constructor object of which the XMLHttpRequest origin is a unique identifier but Referer would still be a useful value.