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Asked: 2026-06-17T22:16:14+00:00

Can anyone verify what I am seeing is not a bug? I am checking

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Can anyone verify what I am seeing is not a bug? I am checking the referrer when someone comes to my site which is an ASP.NET C# store site. When I link from any of the other sites I control, my main page sees the referrer properly.

I am trying to support another third-party site that’s linking to me and they have a Google site page at sites.google.com/site/whatever and when I follow that link my referrer on my main page is blank.

Is that something Google is doing or is it a truly bizarre bug in my code. (I know you can’t see my code but I would like verification that Google is stripping referrer from their sites.google pages please.)

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  1. Editorial Team

    Google Sites is HTTPS by default, which means no referrer data is passed. This may be part of Google’s move to HTTPS across the board. Implications discussed here.

    HTTP RFC says referrers shouldn’t be sent when going from HTTPS to HTTP. Not sure if HTTPS to HTTPS will work either. See discussion here.

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