Extension talk:HideReferringPage

Fails to follow external links
No installation problems on MW 1.14.0, however after enabling this extension all external links now direct to the page 'Extensions/HideReferringPage/redir.php' (and not the specified external url). Are the Configuration parameters fully outlining the required setup steps? --Mega 19:34, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Issues
I had to hack it to get it to redirect at all (and then it doesn't hide the referrer). Replace the modifyExternalLinks in HideReferringPage.php with the following: function modifyExternalLinks(&$url, &$text, &$html) { $path = $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']; # hack and might not work in all situations $path = $path. "/extensions/HideReferringPage"; $html = ''.$text. ''; $html = str_replace('index.php/', "", $html); return false; }

To hide the referrer, I am using one of the many many dereferer sites. Replace the contents of redir.php with the following: 

Ddaltun 17:19, 3 June 2011 (UTC)