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Request: referrer property

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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.

Value

A string representing the request’s referrer.

Examples

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:

const myRequest = new Request("flowers.jpg");
const myReferrer = myRequest.referrer; // returns "about:client" by default

Specifications

SpecificationsStandards references are available on the canonical MDN page.

Browser compatibility

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