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Is there a way in php to set the value for the Referrer header that gets sent along with the HTTP request ?

are Understanding Browser this header? for example replace:

< meta http-equiv="Referrer" content="never"/ >

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header('Referrer: never');//sent header in php
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    Can you explain your actual problem? Commented Jan 8, 2013 at 6:35

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If you are making the HTTP request from PHP (e.g. with cURL), yes.

You can't control the referer header that a browser will make though.

<meta http-equiv="Referrer" content="never" />

Meta http equiv allows you to set something that is (theoretically) equivalent to an HTTP Response header. Referer is a Request header so that won't do anything.

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What would you expect Google to do with it?
@saeedarabsheybani — (a) Note that that is a proposal, not a standard, not something that should be supported by anything, anywhere (b) What do you expect Google to do with it even if anything supported it?
google use this meta to sending/not sending q value (in get param) in referer
@saeedarabsheybani — http-equiv is a joke. You can't substitute HTTP headers and meta http-equiv and expect it to work. If you want to manage it server side, then manage when the meta gets injected into the template or not, not the HTTP headers.
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You have typed it wrong. It must be "Referer". Yes, normally this is the wrong one though, it is defined like this.

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