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Re: "Exploiting the XmlHttpRequest object in IE" - paper by Amit

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (anonymous@anonymous.com)
Tue Sep 27 13:48:20 2005

Date: 27 Sep 2005 03:19:23 -0000
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Another way to spoof a Referer header using XMLHTTP is to do something like this:
xmlhttp.SetRequestHeader("Referer:", "http://some.referer.com");

Note that the ':' after the Referer does the trick here.  If this is not present IE ignores this header.
Thanks!

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