Stop a site from catching fake referers

[JJoe]

I managed to find the behavior.

A real referer header looks like

Referer: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CDEQqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.haaretz.co.il%2Fopinions%2F.premium-1.2001807&ei=pVJ4UcLlEciu4AT1-oGIAQ&usg=AFQjCNEYmboF_ZsMMtXZWteevEdabu1M2w

Your fake referer looks like

Referer: https://www.google.com

I suspect there is a script looking for something like "url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.haaretz.co.il%2Fopinions%2F.premium" in the referer.

However, I can see the full article after faking a simple referer. My guess is my set disables or breaks the script that evaluates the referer string.

I had no problems blocking bots.js, header or webpage filter. Perhaps, your browser had cached the file before you tried to block it.

HTH