Updating document.referrer documentation to reflect latest behavior inside an iframe.

[animesh-g]

Description

document.referrer is equivalent to parent window's window.location.origin not window.location.href inside an iframe. The current documentation mentions an older behavior.

Motivation

In Safari, document.referrer is not equivalent window.parent.location.href for a while. It always returns only the origin. Now same behavior can be observed on latest Chrome, Firefox and other browsers as well. Although I couldn't pin point on which version this behavior got changed. Probably it is due to some privacy related changes in between.

Additional details

https://webkit.org/blog/8311/intelligent-tracking-prevention-2-0/ https://stackoverflow.com/q/57143306

Related issues and pull requests

NA

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Preview URLs

• /en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/referrer

(comment last updated: 2024-04-09 12:30:54)

[bsmth]

I've made some clarifications directly on this PR, I hope you don't mind me committing directly. I'll merge this one shortly - thanks a lot for the submission! 🎉

[animesh-g]

Thanks a lot for adding clarifications!!