Erm, it gets to the redirection page fine. But when it redirects me to the external site, THAT's where I see the referer (in the external site's logs).

So it seems like Safari sends a referer header when redirecting to a site using the meta http-equiv as you're doing.

If you'd like, I can make some screenshots for you.

Well that's certainly weird. I can't find any documented problems about it though.

Greetz. It looks like there's a bug with URL tag if used in following way:

The output instead of
wil look something like
and will be redirected twice...
Just try to post the first code and you'll see what i'm talking about...
Hope it'll help.

Also there's another bug:
i've put in addresses that are not anonymized exclusions for anonym.to
but still, links like http://anonym.to?http://www.google.com/ are anonymized by redirector.php....

Any other ideas on this Dismounted? It's still giving me errors.

It seems that the URL is being encrypted twice. That code you're seeing is the encrypted version of the URL (it's normal). I'll have a further look into it.
Have you installed and uploaded the newest version? Try a full uninstall and install.
I really have no ideas. Are you still getting the same error?

I've installed newest version (2.2). Fully uninstalled it and installed again... Both issues (double encryption & anonym.to exclusion) remains...

nice hack

Sweeeeeet!

if this hack is uninstalled, will the HEX-encoded URL's also be restored to their originally posted state?

Wel... Not at my board.

Yes, it should, as the URL's are changed on-the-fly. You might need to clear your cache though.

Thank you Dismounted, great add-on. Installed.

May I ask what this product does with img tags?
If it's redirect too will be perfect a lot

Thank you for sharing this great hack! *Installed*

Could you please clarify the purpose of this hack? I honestly am not sure what the 'pro' is of anonymous outgoing links. Please explain

Is there an option to disable this function on a user base? Like in the UCP?

Some sites log the referrer information when you visit their site. This hack prevents that information from being sent.
No, not at the moment.

Hack Updated!

28/3/2007 - Version 2.3
- Slimlined Code

Can you please stop to forget the vBA compatibility everytime you Update ? *argh*

And you forgot to Phrase : "Visiting Link" at Product.

And since 2.2 (not 2.3) there is another Bug allways using / for redirector.php.

There are Boards like mine where vBa is at /index.php and Forums at /forum/index.php so redirector has to be at /forum/redirector.php even at vBa.

Please fix it.

In your upgrade instructions, you say in the 3rd step:

I have nothing to revert in 2 templates prefixed vbanonymizer_

???

1./ Flagged for next version.
2./ What is the behaviour in 2.3?
Then you don't need to do anything.

1. Ehmm ... why didn?t you just upload a corrected 2.3 Package? :eek: Who long will it take this Time? Months again?

2. I guess the same - but i can?t checke because of Problem Nr. 1! :rolleyes:

i just installed --

-- and uninstalled --

-- this hack --

-- for the same reasons as redlabour --

:|

Best thing you can do - i have written him a PM because of the vBa Problem and he replies to me that a Fix has to wait because "it is only a Phrase" .... i am not sure if he knows what he does. :D

1. The vBa Bug was at 1.0 - after that he fixed it weeks later at 2.2 because he dont know what vBa was before. Now its the same Bug again at 2.3.

2. The Redirectproblem because of /portal.php and /forum/index.php is something i have to fix at every Version on my own.
Search for redirector.php and add your complete Path before it at Product. Something he can do by AdminCP Option - but he dont.

3. The Phrase "Visiting Link" was never fixed at every earlier Version.

The only thing i can see at 2.3 is that there are no new Features or Bugfixes - only old Bugs again .... and he still thinks vBa is a Phrase........... ;)

But you can use Version 2.2 if you change the Path if you have moved vBa to / and Forums to /forum.

2./ Stop blaming me for everything. Just because it isn't compatible with another hack.
3./ This was 'And you forgot to Phrase : "Visiting Link" at Product.'

Hack Updated!

29/3/2007 - Version 2.4
- Phrased WOL
- Fixed '&' Issues
- Fixed Compatibility Issues
- Added Function To Specify Path To Script

Thx - now it definitely works fine.

Finally, a conclusion :).

Hi Dismounted,

Love this hack.

However there seems to be a problem in the 2.4 (2.3 also) that wasn't in 2.2

When a user clicks on the redirected link (rather than waiting for the seconds to elapse) they are redirected back to my forum main page rather than the redirected site.

It does work properly if they let the seconds elapse, but not if they are impatient and click the link.

Any ideas? I am running VBSEO if that matters, but 2.2 worked fine with VBSEO and did not have this problem.

I'll have a look into the issue, I think it may have something to do with me cleaning up my code.

This Problems (i have forgotten) only appears at several Kinds of URL?s .... that?s not a Problem of your Hack - in FF it does not happen. Only in IE.

Can you post or PM me a url that DOESN'T work?

Ok i confirm this Bug now. Forget what i post one Posting before this.

If you click on any Link you can see at the Statusbar of Browser the Direction :

http://www.YOURDOMAIN.de/forum/$url

For some reason this hack caused my templates on the portal page (vBA) to stretch over 100%. This only happens on Firefox.

Disabling the plugin fixed the issue, so maybe some incompatibility issues?

Dismounted - can you upload 2.2 again?

Works better?

2.2 has less bugs.

Im still on 2.2 and lovin it

??? 2.4 works great and has only one small Bug that is also in 2.2 !!!

updated!