is a HTTP header field that identifies the address of the webpage (i.e. the URI or IRI) that linked to the resource being requested.
Questions tagged [referrer]
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How to set the Referrer-Policy HTTP header with the Angular HTTP Client?
How can we set the Referrer-Policy HTTP header when using Angular's HTTP Client?
I've tried setting it below but it does not work:
let headers = new HttpHeaders();
headers = headers.set('Referrer-Policy', 'no-referrer');
this.httpClient.get(url, {…

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How to get original referrer url when invoking javascript??
Let us take i am in site named domain1.com and navigating to another site domain2.com, where i invoke a external js call.
The problem is the referrer of the js call is domain2.com and but i need the original referrer i.e. domain1.com. I see that the…

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Guaranteeing request came from local server
I've got a classic ASP page making an XMLHTTP request to my ASP.net (c#) page, "doSomething.ashx". They are both hosted on the same server.
How can I guarantee that the request came from the local server, to stop malicious users visiting the…

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Why is my browser not sending any referrer?
I have an html page with the following code.
My browser does not include the referrer header field in the http request when a user submits…

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How do I identify the referrer page in ASP.NET?
In VS2003, I am trying to find out the particular page where the request is coming from. I want to identify the exact aspx page name.
Is there a way to only get the page name or some how strip the page name?
Currently I am using the following…

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Referral links on App Store / Google Play
I have created a game and published it on App Store and Google Play, now I want to advertise it on a couple of websites. But how can I track where people came from? In the past, when we sold things on our own websites, we could use…

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Getting the referrer URL in php ( including parameters )
Are there any HTTP Headers I could use to grab the entire referrer URL using a webserver/server-side scripting? Including query string, et cetera?

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Rails 3 gem for capturing referrer info?
Is there a single (or multiple) Rails gem that will help to easily capture the following on a when registering a new model instance (i.e.: new user)?
referrer URL
traffic source (google, bing, etc.)
traffic medium (organic, cpc)
search terms (if…

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history.back only if referrer same website
I'd like to display a back button with the help of history.back, but it should only be displayed if the history page is within the same website / domain. So it should not be displayed if referrer is e.g. google.com. Couldn't find a working solution…

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Kohana 3.2 - Get referrer URI
I'm attempting to get the referrer URI in Kohana 3.2 using the following code:
$referrer = $this->request->referrer();
var_dump($referrer);
However the function returns NULL, I'm expecting it to return the page I left to get to this one.
Is that…

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Is it possible to remove the referrer in PHP before redirected?
But since the browser is the only thing that manages the referrer, however I was thinking about a script that removes the referrer before they are redirected to the link they want to go to.
For example,…

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How to get complete url from document.referrer when there are some special characters in it?
How can I get the complete url like "http://twitter.com/#!/larrickchen" using something like document.refrerrer if it did come from "http://twitter.com/#!/larrickchen" ??
document.referrer only return "http://twitter.com/" instead of full path. I…

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How can I set google analytics referrer manually with gtag script?
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/field-reference#referrer
I can set google analytics referrer manually with ga script.
but I want to use gtag script for GA implementation.
So How can I set the Referer manually…

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Javascript `document.referrer` vanishes when using a HTTP->HTTPS Apache redirection
I redirect all my websites from HTTP to HTTPS with:
ServerName example.com
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}
ServerName…

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Android Market Referrer Data Not Being Populated
I've implemented a BroadcastReceiver to receive and parse Android Market referrer data. I followed the steps here: http://code.google.com/mobile/analytics/docs/android/#android-market-tracking and this all works fine and dandy when I navigate to the…

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