Meta Refresh Strips Referrer Info

Why Does This Happen?

[spyder_tek]

Hi,

When I have pages that use the meta http-equiv="refresh" tag, it strips the referrer info from my logs.

It tells me that it was a "direct hit", which isn't the case since the user was redirected by use of the meta refresh tag, so the user has to be coming from somewhere.

Is there anything I can do in order to fix this?

Thanks.

[whoisgregg]

Referrer info comes from the browser, so if browsers consistently have this behavior with a meta refresh then you'd need to experiment with other redirect approaches. You can't force the browser to send a referrer.

If you know it's doing this then you must be able to identify their referrer anyways... Do you really need that to be in the log files or can you just modify your log analysis to recognize it the same way you did?

[spyder_tek]

Well, I can't identify the referrer because my logs show these reffered visits as being direct hits.

I can't modify my log analysis either.