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Test Info: Warnings
- This test has a WPT meta file that expects 2 subtest issues.
- This WPT test may be referenced by the following Test IDs:
- /html/browsers/browsing-the-web/navigating-across-documents/javascript-url-referrer.window.html - WPT Dashboard Interop Dashboard
// META: script=../resources/helpers.js
// META: title=javascript: URL navigation to a string must create a document whose referrer is the navigation initiator
const originalURL = location.href;
const testCases = [
["unsafe-url", location.href],
["origin", self.origin + "/"],
["no-referrer", ""]
];
for (const [referrerPolicyForStartingWindowCreation, expectedReferrer] of testCases) {
promise_test(async (t) => {
const meta = document.createElement("meta");
meta.name = "referrer";
meta.content = referrerPolicyForStartingWindowCreation;
t.add_cleanup(() => meta.remove());
document.head.append(meta);
const w = await openWindow("/common/blank.html", t);
const originalReferrer = w.document.referrer;
assert_equals(originalReferrer, expectedReferrer,
"Sanity check: opened window's referrer is set correctly");
// Mess with the current document's URL so that the initiator URL is different. Then, if that
// shows up as the javascript: URL document's referrer, we know the navigation initiator's URL is
// being used as the referrer, which is incorrect.
history.replaceState(undefined, "", "/incorrect-referrer.html");
t.add_cleanup(() => history.replaceState(undefined, "", originalURL));
w.location.href = `javascript:'a string<script>opener.postMessage(document.referrer, "*");</script>'`;
const referrer = await waitForMessage(w);
assert_equals(referrer, originalReferrer,
"javascript: URL-created document's referrer equals the previous document's referrer");
}, `${referrerPolicyForStartingWindowCreation} referrer policy used to create the starting page`);
}