I have 2 pages :
1.php and 2.php
When the user arrives on 2.php, i want to show on 2.php that the user is arriving from google.com and NOT from 1.php
I tried spoofing the header of 2.php using
<?php header(); ?>
when i do a javascript document.write(document.referrer); it shows me 1.php
Any help is appreciated.
Answer
The http referrer is a request header. The server (PHP) can only set response headers.
Thus the only way to spoof a referrer is for the client to do it, usually via some sort of browser plugin.