IE has empty document.referrer after a location.replace

Question

I\'ve got a site that does a complex search and has a \"loading\" page. On the loading page we use:

Answer 1

Looks like this is just the cost of doing business with IE users. Can't be fixed without a hack. Working on one now. Thanks for listening.

http://webbugtrack.blogspot.com/2008/11/bug-421-ie-fails-to-pass-http-referer.html

I used the workaround to make this function. Works like a charm.