#10027 [Com]: HTTP_REFERER

ID: 10027 Comment by: XXX-For1635 at hotmail dot com Reported By: brad at youreshop dot com Status: Closed Bug Type: *Web Server problem Operating System: Linux Redhat 6.2 PHP Version: 4.0.4pl1 New Comment: <a href=http://www.geocities.com/rkhsxefiug2895/>XXX For</a> Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-10-14 14:01:38] paul at bladetechnology dot co dot uk The last comment was correct. It's caused by one of the Norton products (Norton Personal Firwall in my case) changing the HTTP_REFERER header into HTTP_WEFERER (elmer fudd?) and encrypting it. You can solve this by creating a rule in the firewall software to pass unaltered headers to named sites. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-05-09 08:38:17] mn at red1 dot net I experienced the same problem using PHP4.2.0 (win32) with Apache on WinME. On the phpinfo() page HTTP_REFERER was shown as HTTP_WEFERER with a value of a string of letters. When I disabled "Norton Internet Security" the problem disappeared. What is more, scripts on a remote server which were reliant on getting data from HTTP_REFERER would not run with "NIS" enabled. Did you have a similar programme running? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-03-07 06:15:43] sesser@php.net HTTP_WEFERER has nothing todo with PHP its some data your browser gives out to the world. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-03-07 04:19:22] alexleu at starglory dot com Both windows2000 & FreeBSD 3.4 found SAME Problem With Apache! How to decode HTTP_WEFERER? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-04-29 11:50:00] jmoore@php.net No feedback. closing ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/10027 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=10027&edit=1