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xyzzy@bok | 16:16 Sun 25th May 2003 | Technology
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What are referrer headers? Why might i want to stop them? How would I do that?
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When you follow a link to server, your browser will send a referrer header which tells the new server where you have just come from. Companies can use this information to determine how effective their advertising is working from these sites.The information isn't usually tied to you personally, but it can be if the new site prompts you for your name/email. To the best of my knowledge it is not possible to disable this from IE - but some firewalls have the ability to block Referrer headers.
18:00 Sun 25th May 2003
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Thx anthomson. :-) beware MSN and their Alexa.
[Don't fear the Ripa]
00:47 Mon 26th May 2003

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