How to do a redirect without the original referrer showing?

Question

I need to do redirect my site visitors to a third party site, without the original referrer showing as the urls disclose private information.

Is there a way to instruct a browser redirection without a referrer being sent to the destination site? E.g. using javascript?

Thanks

Answer 1

You will need to redirect through another page. You can do a POST to your own page which then does a redirect to the destination. This will show only your intermediate page as the referrer.

There is not a way to do this with just javascript.

Answer 2

As a quick workaround, you could redirect them to a special URL owned by you which exclusively redirects to the target URL (or one provided as a query parameter, for example). This way the private information would be lost in the extra hop.

Answer 3

Have you tried

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://www.someplace.com"&gt;

Answer 4

Try redirect with curl for example.