Doesn’t record referrer from secure websites

  • Resolved abrown95

    (@abrown95)


    4 years, 6 months ago

    I’ve noticed that URL referrers that come from non-secured pages (https://) are logged, but ones that come from secured (https://) referrers are not. The referrer field is blank for them.

    Edit: It DOES record secure websites if it’s installed on a secure website. But non-secured sites do NOT record referrers from secure websites. Hope this makes sense.

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by abrown95.
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  • Plugin Contributor helened

    (@helened)

    This isn’t a WassUp issue. It is caused by the security policy set by the W3C.

    FYI. There is a workaround that a ‘https’ site admin can use to pass referrer information (sometimes) from their site to a direct external link with a ‘http’ domain on their site (like in a blogroll) via a header ‘<meta>’ tag: here

    Thread Starter abrown95

    (@abrown95)

    Thank you! Good to know.

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