http://us.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.server.php cited is a good resource, you might have better luck with $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] You might want to first check the user agent (browser) with get_browser() to determine if it is one of those that can spoof the answer. Bottom line it's not always trustworthy, some clients can, under certain circumstances, fake being referred from one of your own pages. Warren Vail Vail Systems Technology warren@xxxxxxxxxxxx (510) 444-5380 -----Original Message----- From: Lester Caine [mailto:lester@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 11:53 PM To: php-windows Subject: Re: Trying to retrieve/confirm referrer URL in a PHP page/script Jacob Kruger wrote: > As subject line says, it would be nice, sometimes, specifically in terms of form submission processing to maybe confirm the referring URL/server, and I have used similar things in past with classic ASP etc., but can't remember that exact syntax, but think it had something to do with something like a HTTP response referer header or something. > > Either way, I know there are collections of values like $_REQUEST, $_SERVER, etc., but not sure where to try find something like this, or if it's simply/easily possible/doable? http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.server.php 'REQUEST_URI' -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
