When you have (this should be discussed anyways) code in your javascript application changing to a different website, you'll see something similar to that:
location.href = 'test.php';
If you want to retrieve the referer on the next page, this will not work anymore. This is a
known IE Bug and not fixed in IE 8.
For instance this in javascript:
location.href = 'test.php';
And this as test.php
echo $_SERVER['REFERER'];
In this case, the output in IE will always be empty. In the other big browsers, it works like a charm.
But there is always, also this time, a workaround. Found at
If you use for all browsers such wrapper function:
function goto(url){
location.href = url;
}
You just have to make it like that for the one browser:
function goto(url){
var referLink = document.createElement('a');
referLink.href = url;
document.body.appendChild(referLink);
referLink.click();
}
As you can see, it will create a link with exactly the refer link. And will properly work then.
