Remove referer from Javascript redirect

javascript http-headers referrer
Flavien picture Flavien · May 7, 2013 · Viewed 9.2k times · Source

I need to do a Javascript based redirect

window.location.href = 'URL';

But I need to remove the referrer from the HTTP headers upon redirection (the target page should see no referrer), how can I do that?

Answer

bas picture bas · Sep 24, 2014 

<a href="redirecturl" rel="noreferrer" id="autoclick">Link</a>
<script>document.getElementById('autoclick').click();</script>

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