title: Changing http-referer via a redirect
body: <p>We are signing up to an online resource that uses http-referer as authentication (bad idea, I know) to prove that the request comes from our intranet (IP address is not available for this as there is a higher level proxy).</p>
  
  <p>Unfortunately it might be that their system requires a specific referer URL rather than taking the domain. This will mean when we want to link to the resource from a different page we will need to either register yet another URL with them or link to effectively a splash page they have to click through again.</p>
  
  <p>If we need to go down this route I'd like to make it as unnoticeable as possible and so was wondering what the best approach would be to achieve the following:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><code>http://intranet/somerandomurl</code> has a link to</li>
  <li><code>http://intranet/AuthorisedUrl</code> which needs to be the referrer to</li>
  <li><code>http://externalsite/</code></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Is there any way to do this without literally making people click on a link? (the vast majority of browsers will be IE6 or IE7 if that helps, if some need to click on the link but I can use JS for most I'm ok with that).</p>