From: "Cédric Finance" <pticedric@...>
Date: 2007-11-09T04:36:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Faking the refering page with Mechanize

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the XMLHttpRequest Object has a method setRequestHeader so we can change
the header from the request but i'm not sure that we can do an
xmlhttprequest to
a different domain than the current website.
And in javascript, document.referrer is read only.

On Nov 8, 2007 7:50 PM, Ehud Rosenberg <ehudros@gmail.com> wrote:

> C=E9dric Finance wrote:
> > I don't think that you can do what you want this way, the referer is se=
t
> > 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, tr=
y
> > 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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