Report-To header

WARNING: This header has been replaced by the Reporting-Endpoints HTTP response header. It is a deprecated part of an earlier iteration of the Reporting API specification.

The HTTP Report-To response header allows website administrators to define named groups of endpoints that can be used as the destination for warning and error reports, such as CSP violation reports, Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy reports, deprecation reports, or other generic violations.

Report-To is often used in conjunction with other headers that select a group of endpoints to use for a particular kind of report. For example, the Content-Security-Policy header report-to directive can be used to select the group used for reporting CSP violations.

Syntax

Report-To: <json-field-value>

• <json-field-value>
  • : One or more endpoint-group definitions, defined as a JSON array that omits the surrounding [ and ] markers. Each object in the array has the following members:
    • group
      • : A name for the group of endpoints.
    • max_age
      • : The time in seconds that the browser should cache the reporting configuration.
    • endpoints
      • : An array of one or more URLs where the reports in the group should be sent.

Examples

Setting a CSP violation report endpoint

This example shows how a server might use Report-To to define a group of endpoints, and then set the group as the location where CSP violation reports are sent.

First a server might send a response with the Report-To HTTP response header as shown below. This specifies a group of url endpoints identified by the group name csp-endpoints.

Report-To: { "group": "csp-endpoints",
              "max_age": 10886400,
              "endpoints": [
                { "url": "https://example.com/reports" },
                { "url": "https://backup.com/reports" }
              ] }

The server can then specify that it wants this group to be the target for sending CSP violation reports by setting the group name as the value of the report-to directive:

Content-Security-Policy: script-src https://example.com/; report-to csp-endpoints

Given the headers above, any script-src CSP violations would result in violation reports being sent to both of the url values listed in Report-To.

Specifying multiple reporting groups

The example below demonstrates a Report-To header that specifies multiple endpoint groups. Note that each group has a unique name, and that the groups are not bounded by the array markers.

Report-To: { "group": "csp-endpoint-1",
              "max_age": 10886400,
              "endpoints": [
                { "url": "https://example.com/csp-reports" }
              ] },
            { "group": "hpkp-endpoint",
              "max_age": 10886400,
              "endpoints": [
                { "url": "https://example.com/hpkp-reports" }
              ] }

We can select an endpoint group as the target for violation reports by name, in the same way as we did in the previous example:

Content-Security-Policy: script-src https://example.com/; report-to csp-endpoint-1

Specifications

This header is no longer part of any specification. It was previously part of the Reporting API.

Browser compatibility

See also

• Reporting API and Reporting-Endpoints header
• report-to CSP directive
• Content-Security-Policy, Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only headers
• Content Security Policy (CSP) guide