http referrer

  • Resolved SkyHiRider

    (@skyhirider)


    10 years, 7 months ago

    I am unsure if your plugin already does this, but I need to include links to my projects on my private site. The problem is that if I include a direct url in WordPress the receiving site will see my websites url in the packet’s http referrer – this can break security as I am promoting my website to the outside world.

    Could your plugin change the http referrer inside the packet header so that the receiving site is oblivious to the origin of the link?

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/jonradio-private-site/

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  • I’ll look at that and report back here in the next couple hours. When I’m back at my desk.

    I took a look around and I see that there are existing plugins that handle this capability (hiding the referrer), such as this one: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-secure-referer-dereferer-service/

    The scope of my plugin is to force login on the public areas of a WordPress site, or selected parts of the site. What you are discussing is more in the scope of security plugins.

    In fact, if I were going to design such a feature, I would create a brand new plugin just for that (hiding the referrer).

    Thread Starter SkyHiRider

    (@skyhirider)

    Thank you for the link to the plugin, I am trying it now.
    The security problem that I see with this is that it uses external services for the referrer change.
    I am looking for a solution that would have my core domain as a referrer (example.com) but would remove the specific url (so that none sees the hidden directory where my site is located).

    Don’t know if there is a plugin like that, but I will do some searching myself.

    Thanks again!

    Here are a few more I found in my search, but have not tried:
    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/anonymize-links/
    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-hide-referer/

    None does it the way you want, but they are closer, I think, than the first plugin I mentioned.

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