Perl Spoof Script for HTTP_REFERER protection

I recently was searching for something that I could use with Apache to modify the referrer from my administration section on one of my websites. Not claiming to know much about Apache & what it can do, I searched for hours and came up with nothing.

The whole point in me modifying the referrer was to not show my administration URL’s in other webmasters’ logs, not to send referer spam across the globe & mess with website statistics. When I was thinking about another way to approach this problem, I thought of a spoof script. After another few hours of searching and testing on my local machine I came up with something that would work out well. I could click on a link in my administration area and visit a website without my administration section links showing up in server logs.

One one hand, the script is useful. It adds a little bit of security just for the fact that your administration paths are not plastered all over the net in front of the eyes of could be hackers. Someone checking their server logs might not pay too much attention to a referral from http://www.example.com, but they might perk a bit of interest to finding out what lies in:

http://www.example.com/protected/administration/offlimits/dontlookhere/

This is the whole reason I wanted the ability to block the referer.

The dilemma is this: do I make this script publicly available? Sure, there are referral spoof scripts available: though I hadn’t found any as versatile as the one I wrote, at least written in perl. I think that messing with the http_referer is a bad thing most of the time as it can mislead webmasters as to where their traffic is coming from.

I don’t know, Any thoughts on this?

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