Pulling my hair out over header( "Location: and referal information

[Shaun]

Hi folks, im in a spot of bother and I really hope someone can help me out here.

 

So I understand that http_referer is passed by your browser and not the server. I also understand that you can have some trouble with referals on the same domain so I tested this on two different domains. I also tested three browsers, FireFox, Chrome, and IE. But I still cannot view the referal information when my php script uses header("location:....  There is no problem if I use actual html links. I have tried forcing the http status as 200, 301, 303 and still nothing. I have no idea why the browser will not pass this information along.

 

The first page on domain1.com:

<?php header( "Location: http://domain2.com" ); ?>

 

The second page on domain2.com:

<?php echo $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; ?>

 

thank you all very much for your time, it is most appriciated!

 

- Shaun

[mrMarcus]

you answered your own question.

 

http_referer is passed by the browser, and since header() is passed by the server, before any output to the browser, no http_referer is set.

 

the browser is never in play.

[Shaun]

Thank Marcus, I was starting to think the same. It's strange how its handled, I managed to find some info about using python instead. Ill leave a link here should anyone need it for reference. http://code.google.com/p/ga-demos/wiki/GaRedirects