Adding HTTP Referrer in header() function

Just curious if it is possible to add HTTP REFERRER using PHP's header() function.
Appreciate your response...

 

$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], empty if not set

MAKE SURE YOU SANITIZE IT, IT CAN BE ANYTHING, NOT JUST A URL

 

No not trying to find the referrer for my site..
I want to include a fake referrer from my site to a third party site.

For instance if I redirect a visitor to third party site.. They shouldnt recognize my site has "http_referrer".. they should see whatever url I assign from my site.
Is this possible?

 

Based on RFC 2616, the syntax is:

header("Referer: http://google.com");
header("Location: http://yahoo.com.php");

PHP:

However, this never seems to work for me. I always use fsockopen or curl instead when I need to fake the headers.

 

Referrer is defined on the clientside, you can't just "fake a referrer"

 

As krsix already said, referrer header is sent by the browser. You can only fake it if you try to make a HTTP request.
And the short answer is no, you can't make a client's browser send fake headers like that.

 

If you are using PHP, you can spoof the referer with cURL:

$ch = curl_init("http://google.com");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Referer: http://digitalpoint.com'));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$output = curl_exec($ch); 
curl_close($ch);

PHP:

Checkout the cURL manual at php.net for more info on cURL, it's very useful

 

Thanks for replying.. However cURL will not work for me as I dont intend to serve the content of third party website into my site.
I just wanted my visitors to be redirected...
After googling I found a double meta refresh would help to achieve my intention...