php question: how to remove referer info with a header redirect?
 

How do i remove the REFERER (http_referer) info when sending traffic through a Header("Location..) ?

As in:

USer clicks on a link on mypage.com -> lands on y.com/redirect.php

y.com redirects it to z.com .. i dont want z.com to know the click came from mypage.com..

Any ideas?

i have had the same question for a while now

header("Referer: http://www.site.com");

doesnt do it.. just in case someone dares to mention that ;)

yeah cause one of my sites uses a randomizing script where it pulls the random url from the list of urls in a text file, and i use it to filter traffic, and i dont want people to know where my traffic comes from (trade secret)

For me i just want to do referer tracking on the target domains.. and thats a bitch when hits are coming from a zillion domains. To be honest i havent seen anyone spoofing referers in my stats (except from browsers that support it) so im starting to think its not possible

referer is set clientside, no way to change it serverside.

(you could redirect to a page with a javascript redirect or metaredirect... that will work for most browsers)

Do you have control over the other script counting the referers? If so just make a new header and name it whatever you want so you can track the referring page. Or write a simple script to just log the counts to a db or file. Not that difficult.