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Passing referrer info using winow.open
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Are you talking about the HTTP_REFERER found in the $_SERVER superglobal? If you are, I do believe sending that information is left to the discretion of the browser and not of the script on the website. So there is no way to control that from a remote website, one way or the other.
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Hmm.... well, I understand that it is left to the discretion of the browser and that's acceptable to me at this time. I have another method to "secure" content using the Joomla session variables. But having 2 methods can't hurt either. Using just the standard <a href="url link" target="_blank"> method does send the info, but I need the parameter control of window.open. I've read that there are ways to fake the referrer, but I haven't been able to figure it out or find any code. So that's where I'm stuck.
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