Re: FN-FORUM: Suggestions please

date posted 7th January 2006 00:04


----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Mitchell" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 12:24 AM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Suggestions please


>
> On Saturday 07 January 2006 00:21, [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>> I was thinking about adding code to some of my pages to test that if the
>> referer was blank then redirect to the home page. I wanted to make sure
>> that if someone start by going to to a page that isn't the Home then they
>> are force to start from the Home page. The problem is that Norton for one
>> always makes the referer blank so how can you tell if you have come to
>> page
>> from from another page in the same site or not? Has anyone got any
>> suggestion of how to do it another way.
>
> You can't really - if they hav javascript turned on, you could do
> something
> that way. Of course, if someone bookmarks a page on your site, do you
> REALLY
> want to force them off that page to the site index? That's not very
> friendly,
> and people viewing the site may find it irritating.






>
> It's also worth noting that search engines tend not to send referrer
> headers;
> google certainly doesn't. Any spider doing this will only ever index your
> main page, which I suspect is also not what you want...
>
> Matt
>



I hadn't thought about book marks - you are right. The pages I was thinking
about was where you have the header or footer as a page which you then
include in other pages.If someone goes into the header or footer page by
mistake I wanted to send them to the Home page. I thought it was going to be
impossible and from what you say I am right.


Pam