{"id":8510,"date":"2020-04-08T15:00:27","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T19:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/?p=8510"},"modified":"2021-12-08T10:17:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T15:17:19","slug":"failed-to-set-referrer-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/failed-to-set-referrer-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"How to fix Failed to set Referrer Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here&#8217;s how to fix the Failed to set Referrer-Policy warning in the Chrome console from a website for example a WordPress-based one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You might be a developer working on a <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/websites\">website<\/a> and you encounter the Google Chrome console error &#8220;<strong>Failed to set Referrer-Policy<\/strong>&#8220;. If that is the case we will show you how to fix it in this guide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just in case, the entire warning looks like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Failed to set referrer policy: The value &#8216;http:\/\/example.com\/some-path\/&#8217; is not one of &#8216;always&#8217;, &#8216;default&#8217;, &#8216;never&#8217;, &#8216;no-referrer&#8217;, &#8216;no-referrer-when-downgrade&#8217;, &#8216;origin&#8217;, &#8216;origin-when-crossorigin&#8217;, or &#8216;unsafe-url&#8217;. The referrer policy has been left unchanged.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fixing the Referrer Policy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You can manually fix the problem by changing the directive in the <strong>.htaccess<\/strong> file. It is highly likely your directive looks like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>you can manually find and change as follows in <strong>.htaccess<\/strong> file<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-prismatic-blocks\"><code class=\"language-apacheconf\">Header set Referrer-Policy &quot;&quot;<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>You can simply set a valid policy by changing to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-prismatic-blocks\"><code class=\"language-apacheconf\">Header set Referrer-Policy &quot;origin&quot;<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A referrer-policy modifies the algorithm used to populate the Referer header when fetching subresources, prefetching, or performing navigations. Every environment settings object has an algorithm for obtaining a referrer policy, which is used by default for all requests with that environment settings object as their request client.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the definition above, this policy deals with what information is related to the URL the browser ships to a server to retrieve an external resource.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This policy comes with several optional values which are described here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><code>no-referrer<\/code> which specifies that no referrer information is to be sent along with requests made from a particular request client to any origin. The header will be omitted entirely.<\/li><li><code>no-referrer-when-downgrade<\/code> doesn&#8217;t send Referrer header to a non-priority authenticated URL (if an https URL links to an HTTP URL no header is sent)<\/li><li><code>same-origin<\/code> policy specifies that a full URL, stripped for use as a referrer, is sent as referrer information when making <code>same-origin<\/code> requests from a particular request client. while Cross-origin requests won&#8217;t contain referrer information.<\/li><li><code>origin<\/code> sends the scheme, host, and port (basically, the subdomain) stripped of the full URL as a referrer, i.e. https:\/\/moz.com\/example.html would simply send https:\/\/moz.com for all.<\/li><li><code>origin-when-cross-origin<\/code> sends the format described in origin to cross-origin, while a full stripped URL is sent to <code>same-origin<\/code> requests.<\/li><li><code>unsafe-url<\/code> policy specifies that a full URL, stripped for use as a referrer, is sent along with both <code>cross-origin<\/code> requests and same-origin requests made from a particular request client.<br>it&#8217;s unsafe because it will leak origins and paths from TLS-protected resources to insecure origins.<\/li><li>The empty string <code>&quot;&quot;<\/code> corresponds to no policy, causing a fallback to a referrer policy defined elsewhere, or in the case where no such higher-level policy is available, defaulting to <code>no-referrer-when-downgrade<\/code>.<\/li><li><code>always<\/code> behaves like <code>unsafe-url<\/code>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In Conclusion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There may be cases where the setting is fine but you still get the warning. It could be third-party interference such as that from an Ad-blocker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find out more about using this policy as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/browsers\">browser<\/a> compatibility from the links below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/referrer-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\">visit the policy documentation<\/a>.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en-US\/docs\/Web\/HTTP\/Headers\/Referrer-Policy#Browser_compatibility\" target=\"_blank\">visit this page for the details on the browser compatibility<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s how to fix the Failed to set Referrer-Policy warning in the Chrome console from a website for example a WordPress-based one. 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