# Content-Security-Policy (CSP) header — Report but don't enforce violations when testing

> This example sets the same restrictions as the previous example, but using the {{httpheader("Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only")}} header and the {{CSP("report-to")}} directive.

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## Knowledge

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This example sets the same restrictions as the previous example, but using the {{httpheader("Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only")}} header and the {{CSP("report-to")}} directive. This approach is used during testing to report violations but not block code from executing.

Endpoints (URLs) to send reports to are defined using the {{HTTPHeader("Reporting-Endpoints")}} HTTP response header.

A particular endpoint is then selected as the report target in the CSP policy using the {{CSP("report-to")}} directive.

Note that the {{CSP("report-uri")}} {{deprecated_inline}} directive is also specified above because report-to is not yet broadly supported by browsers.

See Content Security Policy (CSP) implementation for more examples.

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