Question

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).

Answer 1

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 🙁