Okay, I want to make manually checking competitors sites easy. I want to link to these sites, but don't want them to see my pages or domain. So how can I link to them without them seeing a cgi.HTTP_referer (no matter what software they use)
I'm thinking one of the following *might* work, but please let me know if one would, and why. I also realize I can test these on my own, but not sure if my combination of Internet Explorer, IIS and Cold Fusion might work one way while Mozilla, Apache and PHP might work another way.
1.) Use JavaScript to do document.location='http://
2.) Use ColdFusion's <cflocation url=""> tag
3.) I realize I could use a dummy domain and send the click to http://www.some-junk-domai
Any other ideas?
Andrew
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You could use cfhttp too gather data from other sites. That way you have all the control you need, since you explicitly can set http_referer. <naughty mode>You could even set another competitors site as referer ;) But then again, so could they.</naughty mode>
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by: danrosenthalPosted on 2005-01-21 at 18:11:57ID: 13108584
Option #1 would definitely work, as this is equivalent to typing the URL in the Address bar manually.
Option #3 would also work fine.
Option #2 would possibly work, but has problems. If you link from page1 to page2 and page2 has a CFLOCATION to another site, that site would see page1 as the referer.
I can't think of any better options than you have already.