From: Ehud Rosenberg <ehudros@...>
Date: 2007-11-09T03:50:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Faking the refering page with Mechanize

C辿dric Finance wrote:
> I don't think that you can do what you want this way, the referer is set 
> by
> your browser not by the website you are browsing.
> (Moreover, you are changing the referer from the request, not from the
> response). And I don't see why a server response
> could have a referer header.
> If you want to load a page with another referer from your rails app, try 
> to
> use some javascript to change the referer of the
> browser or make an ajax page request with the right referer (I think it
> should be possible to set the header from the ajax
> request).

Yes, it has finally dawned on me that what I'm trying to do is not 
really possible this way. I doubt it can be done using ajax, though it's 
work a bit of research.
Anyway, thanks for putting me on the right track.



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