Re: FN-FORUM: Any way to detect where a user has been redirected from in PHP?

date posted 1st November 2007 14:14

On Thursday 01 November 2007 15:48:18 Ben Nolan wrote:
> Hiya,
>
> Throughout the site which got smooshed yesterday are a load of
> header('Location: blah'); redirects which point at the login page.
> Does anyone know of a way to detect the URL of the page which contains
> that line? HTTP_REFERER seems only ever to contain the page which
> pointed at the page which redirected you, rather than the page itself.
>
> I'm asking this 'cause I'd rather not rewrite all the references to
> Location: blah to include the calling URL in a get query. :/

One line of bash script will do it, if you want to be really smart-arsed,
to change all of them to this:
header('Location: login.php?from=);