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Fake Referrer with Phantomjs
var system = require('system');
// Exit in case of wrong parameter count.
if (system.args.length !== 3) {
console.log('Usage: scriptname targetUrl referrer');
console.log('example: $> phantomjs fake-referrer.phantom.js http://example.com http://referrer.example.com');
phantom.exit();
}
// Set the important pieces
var targetUrl = system.args[1];
var referrer = system.args[2];
console.log('Going to open '+targetUrl+' with the referrer '+referrer);
var page = require('webpage').create();
// set our custom referer [sic]
page.customHeaders = {
"Referer" : referrer
};
page.onLoadFinished = function(status){
page.customHeaders = {};
// get the currentUrl
var currentUrl = page.evaluate(function() {
return document.location.href;
});
// get the referrer
var currentReferrer = page.evaluate(function() {
return document.referrer;
});
console.log('Loading ' + currentUrl + ' finished with status: ' + status+'. document.referrer is: '+currentReferrer);
// Only once do
if ( page.firstLoad ) {
page.firstLoad = false;
console.log('Injecting the Link.');
// Inject and Click a Link to our target
page.evaluate(function (href) {
// Create and append the link
var link = document.createElement('a');
link.setAttribute('href', href);
document.body.appendChild(link);
// Dispatch Click Event on the link
var evt = document.createEvent('MouseEvents');
evt.initMouseEvent('click', true, true, window, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, false, false, false, false, 0, link);
link.dispatchEvent(evt);
}, targetUrl);
} else {
console.log('Exiting');
phantom.exit();
};
};
page.firstLoad = true;
page.open(referrer);
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ghost commented Feb 27, 2017

`

page.onResourceRequested = function(r,n){

	page.customHeaders = {};

};

`
This is where the customHeaders should be cleared, and NOT in onLoadFinished because all elements called by that first page would still have the referer instead of the page itself.
And you can always put a condition to call it only once for neatness but I doubt there would be any performance improvement.

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