# http\_referer does not work in IE?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/http-referer-does-not-work-in-ie/118217>\
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**Created:** [August 3, 2004, 6:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/http-referer-does-not-work-in-ie/118217 "2004-08-03T18:12:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mannequin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Mannequin](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Mannequin)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2004, 6:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/http-referer-does-not-work-in-ie/118217/1 "2004-08-03T18:12:18Z")

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I was creating a banner in Flash but when I was testing it out in various browsers I discovered that Internet Explorer doesn’t carry over the “http\_referer” variable to the target website.

Example:

Site A has the flash banner. When you click on it, it takes you to Site B. When I look at the logs for Site B, I see a referer next to each hit for every browser - except for IE. IE doesn’t carry over the referer.

This is crazy. Is there anyway I can fix this? It’s _sort of_ possible to trick it by using the \_url variable… but that won’t tell me the name of the HTML file the flash is embedded.

Any ideas…?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Mannequin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Mannequin](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Mannequin)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2004, 3:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/http-referer-does-not-work-in-ie/118217/2 "2004-08-04T15:19:33Z")

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Anyone?