RE: FN-FORUM $ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'}

date posted 1st December 2000 16:43

At 16:07 01/12/00 , you wrote:

>It all seems to working ok except the damn referrer. Am I right in saying
>that in fact I should be looking at my browser rather than the server as
>everything looks ok to me. As to browsers im testing with both IE5.5 and
>Opera and get the same results in each.

Might your problem be that you are not being referred from anywhere :-)

If I go directly to the script then (unsurprisingly) HTTP_REFERER is not set
as there is no referring site...

If I go to http://www.cjx.com/b.html

and click on the link to your site, then HTTP_REFERER is set!

You shouldn't ever rely on HTTP_REFERER being set - the client can set it to
anything they want to if they know how...