The referrer read-only property of the Request interface is set by the user agent to be the referrer of the Request. (e.g., client, no-referrer, or a URL.)
Note: If referrer's value is no-referrer, it returns an empty string.
The referrer read-only property of the Request interface is set by the user agent to be the referrer of the Request. (e.g., client, no-referrer, or a URL.)
Note: If referrer's value is no-referrer, it returns an empty string.
A string representing the request's referrer.
In the following snippet, we create a new request using the Request() constructor (for an image file in the same directory as the script), then save the request referrer in a variable:
js
const myRequest = new Request("flowers.jpg"); const myReferrer = myRequest.referrer; // returns "about:client" by default
| Specification |
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| Fetch Standard # ref-for-dom-request-referrer① |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
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| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari | WebView Android | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | |
referrer |
40 | 14 | 39 | No | 27 | 10.1 | 40 | 40 | 39 | 27 | 10.3 | 4.0 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Request/referrer