Re: Alternative to HTTP_REFERER?

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Yeti wrote:

> By definition: The referer, or HTTP referer, identifies, from the
> point of view of an internet webpage or resource, the address of the
> webpage (commonly the URL, the more generic URI or the i18n updated
> IRI) of the resource which links to it.
> 
> More detail at:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referer
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616
> 
> So is a redirecting page a referrer or not? I don't know. Had no time
> to translate the gibberish.

It doesn't have to be a redirect as such - when you set the URL using
javascript, there is also no HTTP_REFERER in MSIE. 

> I experimented a bit with it and the most suitable solution I found
> was passing the referring page on with a GET parameter ...

Which becomes kludgy the minute you've got other GET arguments. 


/Per Jessen, Zürich


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