# Permissions-Policy-Report-Only header — Basic usage

> SecureCorp Inc. wants to disable the {{domxref("Geolocation")}} API in its application. Before rolling out the policy using Permissions-Policy, it adds the Permissions-Policy-Report-Only and {{HTTPHeader("Reporting-Endpoints")}} headers as shown below By specifying geolocation=() for the origin list

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SecureCorp Inc. wants to disable the {{domxref("Geolocation")}} API in its application. Before rolling out the policy using Permissions-Policy, it adds the Permissions-Policy-Report-Only and {{HTTPHeader("Reporting-Endpoints")}} headers as shown below

By specifying geolocation=() for the origin list, it is a violation for any browsing context to access geolocation (this includes s), regardless of origin. The report-to parameter indicates that reports will be sent to the endpoint named geo_endpoint. The mapping between geo_endpoint and the URL where reports are to be sent is provided in Reporting-Endpoints.

A violation occurs when a page attempts to use the blocked feature, for example

The report payload sent to the endpoint will have the same structure as the JSON sample shown below. This is the same as a report for Permissions-Policy except for the value of body.disposition.

&gt; [!NOTE] &gt; Chrome's server-side serialization of violation reports uses policyId rather than featureId for the feature name in the body of a server report. &gt; The {{domxref("PermissionsPolicyViolationReport")}} returned by a ReportingObserver follows the specification.

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