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Default Referrer Policy

Specifies the Chromium default referrer policy. A referrer policy controls how much referrer information is included with network requests.

If you select Use Chromium’s default referrer policy, the strict-origin-when-cross-origin policy is used. This policy:

  • sends the origin, path, and querystring when performing a same-origin request
  • only sends the origin when the protocol security level stays the same while performing a cross-origin request, HTTPS to HTTPS
  • sends no header to less secure destinations, HTTPS to HTTP

If you select Set Chromium’s default referrer policy to the legacy referrer policy, the legacy no-referrer-when-downgrade policy is used for network requests. This policy:

  • sends the origin, path, and querystring of the URL as a referrer when the protocol security level stays the same, HTTP to HTTP or HTTPS to HTTPS, or improves HTTP to HTTPS
  • sends no header to less secure destinations, HTTPS to HTTP