Thanks for the thoughts -- some good points! I will let you know if I
come up with anything that works, please let me you know if you do
the same :)
Best,
Mike D
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Mike Dunlop
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On Sep 27, 2005, at 11:10 AM, <tg-php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <tg-
php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Havn't done it myself, but why not try pasting a link in IM and
have it go to a php script that does a var_dump (or print_r) of
$_SERVER. Think that's where the referrer data is.
It may not show any referrer information since it's coming from an
IM, but who knows.. would be interesting to try out. Thanks for
bringing this up, now I have something to play with later. hah
Second though is that even though you might not get any referrer
data, there may be some other data in the server variables that
could be telling.
Unfortunately, since this is going to spawn an instance of IE or
Firefox or something to actually load the page, you'll most likely
get the info from the browser with zero info regarding the app
(AIM, Yahoo, etc) that it spawned from.
Some IM's, like AIM, allow you to put in variables though, like %s
I think it is for 'screenname' in AIM so if you hand out a URL like
http://www.domain.com/script.php?aim=%s as long as the %s part is
pasted each time, it MAY substitute that person's screen name. If
it's sent to me and I see: http://www.domain.com/script.php?
aim=tgryffyn then copy/paste that (with the tgryffyn instead of %
s) then obviously other people using it will get logged as me, and
not them.
Just some quick thoughts off the top of my head. Let us know if
you come up with anything good and I'll write later if I get a
chance to play with this.
-TG
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I know that referrer is an ENV variable carried by web browsers but I
am wondering if any of you guru's have figured out a way to track any
referrer al information from a link pasted into an instant messenger
(AIM) window.
Anyone have any ideas on this?
Much Thanks,
Mike D
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Mike Dunlop
Director of Technology Development
[ e ] miked@xxxxxxxxx
[ p ] 323.644.7808
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