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copied!<p>The referer is set by your browser, not by any server side mechanism. You could, I guess, construct a proxy in PHP that makes the request of the remote server and sets the referer header appropriately. It seems more useful to just use a Firefox plugin, e.g. <a href="http://www.stardrifter.org/refcontrol/" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><a href="http://www.stardrifter.org/refcontrol/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.stardrifter.org/refcontrol/</a></a>.</p> <p>Edit: I'd reword your question to make it clear you want to write a PHP proxy, with a custom referrer header. I'd probably just modify something like <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/poxy/" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/poxy/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://sourceforge.net/projects/poxy/</a></a> to take the referrer parameter and pass it on.</p> <p>Edit again: You may be clear on what you're asking, but asking for the impossible doesn't make it possible. The browser is responsible for setting the referrer header; it uses the URI that caused it to redirect to a new resource. You're asking for a script that says "Please visit <a href="http://example.net" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://example.net</a>, but pretend that I'm actually www.foo.com when you do so". There is no mechanism for the server to instruct the browser to "lie" about where it came from.</p> <p>I suppose it may be possible via some convoluted JavaScript hacking, but it would be hacking in the black hat sense - a web site being able to force a browser to spoof the referrer would be a real security hole.</p>

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