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abrahab
abrahab

Reputation: 2500

php - how to redirect to be 100% sure that REFERRAL cleaned after redirect

How do I redirect users and be sure that the HTTP_REFERER does not transfer to the next page after reaching a page called redirect.php.

The program flow is as follows:

1) On page at http://example.com/index.php (contains a link to redirect.php)

2) User click on the link to redirect.php and it sends the header('Location: http://otherlocation.com/index.php');

3) I need to prevent otherlocation.com from seeing the HTTP_REFERER from http://example.com/index.php

I have tried: 

 header('Location:redirect.php');

This does not work as HTTP_REFERER is populated with the value from the first page (http://example.com/index.php).

Upvotes: 2

Views: 298

Answers (3)

Sergey
Sergey

Reputation: 5207

Fill up HTTP_REFERER depending by browser, not server-side

You may try redirect user by 

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;url=http://otherlocation.com/index.php" />
<script>document.location = 'http://otherlocation.com/index.php';</script>

browser not fill up HTTP_REFERER at this moment (IMHO)

At firefox this not work :(

Upvotes: 2

Ibrahim Azhar Armar
Ibrahim Azhar Armar

Reputation: 25745

to redirect using PHP send a header request to the browser. try this.

header('Location:redirect.php',true,302);
exit;

The above code will set the HTTP_REFERRER trace to current page. hence deleting the trace from previous page.

Upvotes: 0

Juvar Abrera
Juvar Abrera

Reputation: 485

You can use 

header("Location:redirect.php");

or if you want some delay or countdown, you can use.

// 5 is the seconds of the delay to go to the page you've entered.

header("refresh: 5; redirect.php";

Upvotes: 0

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