Referrer Strings

Posted by WernerCD on Pro Webmasters See other posts from Pro Webmasters or by WernerCD
Published on 2012-09-19T17:02:48Z Indexed on 2012/09/19 21:51 UTC
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I'm not exactly sure how to ask this, but here I go.

I work for a company that provides IT services. Our main costumer has a website developed by WebCompany.com, and I act as a maintainer/middle-man for this website for our customer.

What's happening is that on the front page there is a drop-down-menu with links. One link goes to a third party website - ThirdParty.com. This third party website automatically logs you in based on your IP or your referrer string.

Homepage > ThirdParty.com > Logged in via IP or referrer string.

What's happening... is Website.com is passing along inconsistent referrer strings. I've asked them to look into it and they say it's not their fault, referrer strings are handled at the browser.

ThirdParty.com is actually nice enough to have IP and referrer string listed on the front page for users not logged in.

So... how can I trace the referrer string so that I can figure out why http://Website.com's front page link to ThirdParty.com is showing a referrer as "None" or "Thirdparty.com" instead of "ThirdParty.com"?

Their website is build in PHP. Can you force all links on a website to list "referrer" as "http://website.com/"? instead of "http://website.com/portal/1" or "http://website.com/page3"?

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