Why does it matter? REFERER is only an interesting value for logging and doing back-of-the-envelope flow-analysis on your overall website.

You surely can't be using it for authentication or authorization, because it's trivial to forge, and get stripped by security firewalls, and also comes back wrong or differently on different browsers, as you've noticed.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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