web api instance property
Request: referrer property
Available in workers
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 isno-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
Browser compatibilityCompatibility data is available on the canonical MDN page.