That's a very interesting and helpful insight, thanks!  Can
document.referrer then also be manipulated by Internet Security
Software, as some do to outgoing headers?

On May 13, 3:57 pm, Sean Kinsey <[email protected]> wrote:
> torsdag 12. mai 2011 kl. 22:49:49 UTC+2 skrev gjohnson følgende:
>
>
>
> > As far as I gather the document.referrer property is set via the http
> > header http_referer. I also understand that this header in particular
> > can be blocked from being sent by various proxies and antivirus's like
> > norton. So with that logic in place and assuming it is accurate, why
> > would the http_referer header be stripped out, but document.referrer
> > be populated correctly in some cases?
>
> document.referrer is *not *set based on the referrer header - it's set by
> the browser based on the url from where the user navigated, just like the
> referrer header is.
>
> Sean

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