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To confirm that the site in question is using referrer strings, turn 
them off and see what happens. Open everyone's favorite browser (and the 
crowd shouts "firefox"), and type this into the address bar:

about : config

Hit <enter> and you should get the Firefox configuration system (and the 
crowd goes oooooooo-aaaaahhhhhhh.!!!!!)

In the filter box, put                refer

to see referer settings.  Set the "send referer header" parameter to 0 
(mine was defaulted to "2" after a basic Firefox install, but YMMV).  
That will block sending of referrers.

Re-visit the site in question and see what happens.

Note that many sites will lose functionality and some won't service you, 
if you turn off referrer strings. If you want to test it, go to any of 
those privacy screening tests (heres one: 
http://www.pcflank.com/browser_test3.htm) and see if it passes the 
"referer check".

(I can't resist opportunities to introduce people to Firefox's config 
system.... it's so cool)

-=john
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John F. Andrews  



Paul Reinheimer preinheimer-at-gmail.com |nyphp 04/2004| wrote:

>When you get the http referer tag, it will include the full URL of the
>page you came from. Google search result pages include your search
>term in the URL.
>
>So to highlight the google search terms on a page, grab that referer
>tag, find the search terms, then highlight them on your page
>(str_replace($search_term, "<span
>class=highlight>$search_term</span>")).
>
>
>i think that should work
>
>paul
>
>
>On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 14:28:08 -0400, Yury Rush <yury at heavenspa.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>folks..
>>
>>i see websites that show results on a page based off of my search term.
>>Example:
>>
>>i go to google and type in " computer animation ".. i'll get results that
>>will not be relavant to the website, but more so to my search term.. ..
>>
>>i don;t have any examples off hand, but i hope i am making some sense..
>>
>>lol
>>regards
>>yury
>>
>>//www.flashgimp.com//
>>