Hide Referrer on click

Question

I want to hide the referrer when I click a link on my website. To understand better what I want to do: When somebody clicks a link on my website, I don\'t want the other web

Answer 1

You could make all your links pass through a proxy redirection or link-shortening service (e.g. bit.ly or goo.gl), but that may raise some eyebrows among users.

You could also (again, not advisable) replace your hyperlinks with ones which trigger a server-side postback and programmatically 'construct' the headers before sending the request off.

All a bit overkill though, in my opinion.

Answer 2

In addition to jimps' answer i created a one file .php solution that will work with both HTTPS and HTTP. It uses two steps (and so it will call anonym.php twice). First a javascript redirect, second a php header location redirect. I personally needed this to test posted urls from within an admin area. Enjoy!

<?php
  // anonym.php

  if ($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']) {

    if (stripos($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'], 'anonym2=') === FALSE) {
      echo '<script>document.location.replace("anonym.php?anonym2=' .$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']. '");</script>';
    } else {
      header('Location: ' . str_replace('anonym2=', '', $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']));
    }

    exit();

  }

?>

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