error int the Failed to set referrer policy

javascript html wordpress meta referrer-policy
Holly picture Holly · Oct 9, 2016 · Viewed 90.5k times · Source

I'm getting the following error in my chrome console for a Wordpress site I'm working on.

Failed to set referrer policy: The value 'http://example.com/comic/' is not one of 'always', 'default', 'never', 'no-referrer', 'no-referrer-when-downgrade', 'origin', 'origin-when-crossorigin', or 'unsafe-url'. The referrer policy has been left unchanged.

It's reffereing to this line in the <head> of the HTML document...

<meta name="Referrer" content="http://example.com/comic/" />

I'm vieing the page over http, not https.

What is causing this issue and how can I fix it?

Answer

Deepesh Thapa picture Deepesh Thapa · Jul 21, 2018

Go into your .htaccess file and change the following:

Header set Referrer-Policy ""

to

Header set Referrer-Policy "origin"

That should fix the issue.

The reason is more than likely because you don’t have correct permissions on your .htaccess file that allows w3tc to make the changes it needs to.

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