Is there referrer header while using SSL?

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ilhan picture ilhan · Oct 1, 2011 · Viewed 8.2k times · Source

Is there referrer header within domain while using SSL?

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Karolis picture Karolis · Oct 1, 2011

If a website is accessed from a HTTP Secure (HTTPS) connection and a link points to anywhere except another secure location, then the referrer field is not sent.

The upcoming standard HTML5 will support the attribute/value rel = "noreferrer" in order to instruct the user agent not to send a referrer.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referrer

So it seems referrer is not within the domain, but within SSL.

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