When i am doing ajax request with js i am getting 'Referrer Policy:no-referrer-when-downgrade'

Question

I am trying to send https://myownserver.com/page.php to https://myownserver.com/page2.php and I am getting: Referrer Policy:no-referrer-when-downgrade. This is using POST request using jquery and ajax. This is my code:

$('.dSettings').click(function() {
    $.post('https://myownserver/page2.php', {bookid: '<?= $book['BookID']; ?>', userid: '<?= $_SESSION['Login']['UserID']; ?>', del: 'delete'}, function (data) {
        // do something with the data
    });
});

The problem is that i can open the page2.php from a GET request and using PostMan i can send POST request without any problems. I really don't get where the problem can be. Any help will be grateful!

EDIT: I am using Google Chrome, if someone need this information. My Request Headers are:

Provisional headers are shown
Accept:*/*
Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
Origin:https://myownserver.com
Referer:https://myownserver.com/page.php
User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3163.100 Safari/537.36
X-Requested-With:XMLHttpRequest

EDIT2: I must say that I have 2 more ajax request to the same page2.php and they are working correctly both returning: Referrer Policy:no-referrer-when-downgrade, but also Status Code: 200 and the one that is not working I am getting on Status Code: (canceled)

EDIT3: Part of my html code firing the ajax request <a href="" class="dSettings">Do something, go somewhere</a>

Solution 1

I found my error, it was very stupid. The problem was that i was using an a tag for when a user is clicking and then executing the ajax request, but the problem was that i have written href='' **an empty href inside the a tag and that's why everything was mixing up.** Very stupid mistake i hope this will help to someone else have made the same error, but to be honest i don't believe someone else can make the same mistake, lol :D thanks all for your answers!

The fix is simple, just change it to button tag or inside the a tag just put # for example, but i prefer to change it with a button tag myself.

Solution 2

Please try to add in head section of your code

<meta name="referrer" content="no-referrer" />

Comments

[KIKO Software]

Did you forget the '.com' in the domain? Or is this just a typo in your question?

[Dimitar]

it is just a typo, sorry. i am getting the domain name from php server value so it is the right one.

[Dimitar]

what kind of protocols do you mind? I am using https for both links.

[Dimitar]

well that will probably will not work as i am using a class that is modifying the code when the page is send to page2.php. Then the php module Page2Module will handle the job and actually i am not displaying anything on page2 web page I am only modifying the database and after that just refreshing the page.php

[Dimitar]

btw, i have read this, but i didn't get it. i am doing https to https request.

[Priya]

You need to add this on your page.php file

[Dimitar]

yes i did, but it is not working. as my page.php is empty and actually it should not load at all, but i tried to adding it, but it did not work.

[rottitime]

Downgrading this reply as no full answer and solution given