server side redirect referral?
 

Does anybody know if a server-side redirect (ASP, PHP, it doesn't matter) will show up in the logs of the server of the destination with the correct referring URL? For example, if I do [%response.redirect("http://yahoo.com")%], will Yahoo see the referral from my site?

Leave hitbot programming to Russians...

Depends on the browser...

There's more than one browser that matters?

I don't write hitbots, ******.

You are sad.

Depends entirely on what you're trying to do... Different versions of the same browser may behave differently. Just do some testing.

Yeah, I can, it's just a PITA to go digging through the logs. I'm pretty sure that most browsers DO send the referrer when a server-side redirect is done, but I'm not sure. I'm doing it right now with a custom hahahahahahahahahaha, but I'd rather do it completely server side.

Screw digging through logs... Just hard code your redirector to spit the traffic to a script that displays the referring url during the testing phase.

Or learn the "tail -f" for watching your logs.

Good idea. that first part is simple.
That second one won't work... I use W2K/IIS. But thanks, I'll double check it.

I know a simple solution, but don't think I'll share, you'll probably use it to cheat a trade or something.