HTTP Referrer and IE7 and IE8

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Hi i've tried the following to find the referrer in MSIE / IE7 and IE8 but its returning blank each time;

PHP:

<?
echo $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
?>

JAVASCRIPT:

document.write('Thanks for visiting from ' + document.referrer);

Does any know what the issue could be I'm referering using document.location from a page on another domain and work fine with all other browsers minus MSIE.

Any help would be great!

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