kleptomac » referer header http://www.kleptomac.com A series of experiences on life and technology Sat, 18 Jun 2011 07:38:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 HTTP REFERER header not set when location.href is used for page navigation | Microsoft Connect http://www.kleptomac.com/http-referer-header-not-set-when-location-href-is-used-for-page-navigation-microsoft-connect.htm http://www.kleptomac.com/http-referer-header-not-set-when-location-href-is-used-for-page-navigation-microsoft-connect.htm#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:41:31 +0000 jai.chandra http://www.kleptomac.com/?p=227 Its pretty frustrating to see that IE doesn’t set the ‘referer’ header when navigating pages using ‘location.href’. The header is set properly if you are using anchor tags (<A>) to navigate through pages.

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