When you access a website or make a request to a web server using your browser, it sends various HTTP headers as part of the request. One of these headers is the “Referer” header, which tells the server the URL of the page that referred you to the current page.
While this header serves a legitimate purpose, there are times when you might want to modify or suppress it for privacy or testing reasons. In this article, I will talk about my experience in how to change the Referer header in a request sent in the Chrome browser.