Spoofing HTTP Referer

Referer.us gives you a new kind of HTTP Referer spoofer. Its free, easy to use, and lets all of your visitors fake an HTTP-Referer from your website. Support all kinds of browers, safe to use.

Fake Referer for Users

Please note, Spoofing HTTP Referer from Referer.us is a code used for all your website visitors. It does not need any special installation or setup on your visitors' computer.

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Why Fake the Referer

An HTTP-Referer is an important parameter for tracking website visitors. When you send a visitor to a website and you do not want the website's webmaster know where his or her visitors came from, you need to choose either to hide HTTP-Referer or fake it.

There are millions of places that need a spoof referrer. A typical case is: you are sending your visitors from your black-hat traffic source to your CPA (Cost-Per-Action Affiliate) offer landing page and spoof referer makes it seem if they all came from your white-hat SEO page.

Browser Compatibility

Fully tested and works on:

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How Spoof a HTTP Referer Work

After you place a spoof link on . Your visitors click (or pop-up) the link, and they will be redirected to page with a fake referer . The webmaster of will be stung and think you gave them visitors from . This procedure is also called link cloaking or link masking.

Get a Spoof Link For Fake HTTP Referer

The spoof link is created for you to use on .

Domain Name:	Link Anchor (Optional):
Orginal Url:
Spoofed Referer Webpage Url:
Covert Result Fake-Referer Link to a Short Url
Custom Alias (Optional):

Spoof Link:

HTML Code Spoof Link (Webpage Source Code):

UBB Code Spoof Link (For forum):

Syntax for Spoof HTTP-Referer Link Construction

Spoof Link looks like:

http://referer.us/f/?url=Url&referer=Referer

Url: the destination url address
Referer: the spoof HTTP-Referer webpage url address
The spoofing code need to be installed on referer webpage
Both url need to be well encoded by encodeURIComponent(Client-Side Javascript) or Server.URLEncode(ASP) or urlencode(PHP) etc

Base64 Spoof HTTP-Referer Link Encoding

You can use Base64 encoding your URL as:

http://referer.us/b/BASE64_Url/BASE64_Referer

BASE64_Url: Base64 encoded url address
BASE64_Referer: Base64 encoded referer url address
Need modified Base64 for URL encoding: '+' and '/' are respectively replaced by '-' and '_', '=' can be omitted. Encoding needs to be performed on UTF-8 character set. Base64 is case sensitive.

Troubleshooting

Make Spoofing Work

Follow these easy steps to make your HTTP-Referer spoof work:

You need to install the code at the referrer webpage of your choice;
The code can be installed in various ways, but the code needs to be intact. You need place code at the header section of the webpage source code, and after the Content-TYPE meta tag.
Make sure your original URL and referrer URL are encoded correctly, you can use the form above to create a spoof link.

P3P iFrame Issue

If the spoofer is working but not working in frame or iframe, especially in IE. The reason is P3P privacy protection because cookies cannot be successfully placed. The solution is to deploy your own P3P Policy.

Use Your Own Domain Name

You can use this HTTP Referer Spoofer under your own domain name by map your own domain.

Spoof HTTP Referer Requirement

Since this HTTP Referer spoofing tool is working on any of your websites visitors' computer without presettings, this Referer Spoofer has it own limitations: you can only fake a referer from the website you control. You need place this code on your "Spoofed HTTP Referer Webpage" source code header section after Content-Type meta.

Spoof HTTP Referer Advantages

SSL Support

If you need a code for your https page, use https://referer.us/j/f1.js instead.

Fail Safe

In very rare situations, when your visitor's computer has viruses or browser memory leaks, it may cause HTTP Referer disorder, then our Fail Safe will protect you, and a no-referer will be deployed.

iFrame Support

The spoof link is supported by iFrame and Frame, if your intermediate Spoofed HTTP Referer Webpage does not have any frame-breaking code.

PopUp Compatible

You can use the spoof link in a pop-up , the destination url will receive a fake HTTP-Referer header successfully.

UTF8 URL Support

If you want UTF8 URI to work smoothly, you need encode URL correctly in a UTF-8 condition. And your Spoofed HTTP Referer Webpage has to be UTF8 charset as well.

Self Hosting Code

You can download the code to your own web server, or integrate with your own javascript code. As long as the code is intact, the spoofing will work.

Source Code

The JavaScript source code is here. We suggest that you use your own hosted encrypted code for your privacy.

All The Goodness

This HTTP Referer spoofer has all the features from Referer.us Premium URL Redirection, no advertising, no wating, fast and stable, an easy going service for you.

Testimonials

I have been testing your 'Spoof HTTP Referer' functionality and it's simply brilliant. I've been looking for something like this for a couple of year now. I've just paid you for the domain mapping of xxxxx.xxx. Because it works so well, I'm going to incorporate it into a lot of my affiliate activity.
--- Steve, UK

Known Issues

POST Not Support

Currently, form POST method HTTP-Referer spoofing is not supported. However, it can be done in theory by server-side script like ASP/PHP to process form data, we may release post fake feature in future.

JavaScript Needed

If your visitor's browser does not have JavaScript enabled, your visitor will stop at your spoof referer page .

Cookie Needed

Without cookies enabled, your visitor will stop at your spoof referer page . However, if they are not accepting cookies, you probably won't get affiliate earning anyway.

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