[thelist] Referer Headers

[Carlos Costa Portela]

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, John Griffith wrote:
> I have a few intranet pages here which link to some competitors websites, and I don't really want them to be able to see the referer
> headers in their log files, as they give away all sorts in internal information which for security reasons I don't want other people
> to see (the scripting language used, internal IP addresses, etc). Is
> there any way to ask a browser not to supply a referer header?


Ask everybody to configure the browser is not the best solution, perhaps.
You could put all the links to external pages in the form:

/gourl.php?url=the_external_url

And, in the script gourl.php, put the referral information that you want.
I've not tested this, but I think that it could run fine.

Hope this helps,
	Carlos.

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