Posted by Pro N00b on 03/15/05 22:05

Cav wrote:
> Hi,
>
> since i didn't find a solution for my problem I decided to ask here. I
> want to change HTTP_REFERER, this is how my scripts look like:
>
> a.php
> ---------
> <?php
> header("referer: http://www.asd.com");
> $asd = curl_init();
> curl_setopt($asd, CURLOPT_REFERER, "http://www.asd.com");
> curl_exec($asd);
> curl_close($asd);
> ?>
> <a href="b.php"> check </a>
>
>
> b.php
> ---------
> <?php
> echo "referrer = " . $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
> ?>
>
> who can tell me what did I do wrong? why b.php still shows as referer
> a.php and not asd.com? Sorry if my question is too simple but I'm a
> php-newbie and can't find the right answer on google ;)
>
> Greetings

The browser always sends the sending form as refer, there's no way to
avoid this (except writing your own browser).
I would use a hidden form field or GET variabele for this

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