[timmerk]

Hi,

I am trying to link to some other webservers, and do not want them knowing that the users are coming from my site to theirs. Anyone have a good JS hack to do this? Opening a new window and going to the link does not do the trick.

Thanks!

[calimehtar]

I suspect that isn't possible, since it defeats the whole purpose of referrers. However, you can use a proxy of some sort. Eg I don't really recommend doing this, but you can piggy-back on someone else's redirect, eg http://go.fark.com/cgi/fark/go.pl?ID...www.google.com

substitute anything you like for www.google.com. You have to escape special characters like backslash and ampersand. and delete the space that macnn.com added after www.goo if you're copying the text link.

The above will register on fark's servers, but on google's servers the referrer will appear as fark.

[timmerk]

I like your thinking! ;-)

How would I do the same thing that the script does in php? Just do a location header with the url?

That way, I could put it on my school's servers, and have it look like it's coming from there.

Thanks!

[calimehtar]

I guess you have the right idea. I don't know much about php. You could also do it with a meta redirect.

[Millennium]

The Referer header is sent at a browser level, but it's an important part of the HTTP standard, and it's not something that JavaScript is allowed to mess with. If it were, the security implications would be enormous. As others have said, you'd be better off using a redirector script, but keep in mind that this will need to be hosted on a different site if you want to mask your "real" site's location.

Out of curiosity, why are you trying to mask the Referer header, anyway? Are you worried about other sites banning deep-linking from your site?