Re: [OAUTH-WG] draft-ietf-oauth-closing-redirectors has obsolete header for referer control

Really all I know is that recent versions of Chrome complain that referrer
is an unrecognized Content-Security-Policy directive, which led me to look
up the changes and content in my original message.

On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 9:35 AM, John Bradley <ve7jtb@ve7jtb.com> wrote:

> Brian
>
> To answer my own question to some extent, this page has support status for
> the browsers:
> http://caniuse.com/#feat=referrer-policy
>
> It looks like only FireFox supports strict-origin.
>
> Most of them support origin.
>
> Some like IE, Opera Mini and older versions of Android (4) don’t support
> Referrer-Policy at all.
>
> So I think
> Referrer-Policy: origin
>
> With a note that you still need to use  Content-Security-Policy: for IE
> and Android (4).  There may be some other OEM provided browsers on Android
> from Samsung and others that may not have support but they are a small
> number in general.
>
> John B.
>
>
> On Aug 2, 2017, at 6:46 PM, Brian Campbell <bcampbell@pingidentity.com>
> wrote:
>
> Not sure of the status at this point (it is expired) but the
> draft-ietf-oauth-closing-redirectors WG document in
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-closing-
> redirectors-00#section-2.3 suggests using the Content Security Policy
> header to limit the information sent in the referer something like this:
>
>   Content-Security-Policy: referrer origin;
>
> Consistent with the latest draft of https://w3c.github.io/webappse
> c-referrer-policy/ and according to Mozilla (see
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Co
> ntent-Security-Policy/referrer) the Content-Security-Policy (CSP)
> referrer directive is obsolete and deprecated. And it looks like
> Referrer-Policy should be used instead for that purpose (again see Mozilla:
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Referrer-Policy).
> So the draft-ietf-oauth-closing-redirectors document should probably
> suggest the Referrer-Policy something more like this:
>
>    Referrer-Policy: strict-origin
>
>
>
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