Re: Enabling HTTP_REFERER
| From: | Stephen | Date: | Tue, 11 Mar 2003 01:42:14 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Enabling HTTP_REFERER | ||
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But it works on other websites I've made, esspecially on my local server.
Thanks,
Stephen Craton
http://www.melchior.us
----- Original Message -----
From: "John W. Holmes" <holmes072000@charter.net>
To: "'Stephen'" <webmaster@melchior.us>; "'PHP List'"
<php-general@lists.php.net>
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 8:16 PM
Subject: RE: [PHP] Enabling HTTP_REFERER
> For some reason my webhost doesn't allow the HTTP_REFERER variable. I
call
> it up and it's empty, so I did a print_r($HTTP_SERVER_VARS); and there
> wasn't a variable called HTTP_REFERER. I've heard that some servers
> disable it. Since I have a dedicated server, how can I enable this
> variable again?
HTTP_REFERER (is that the right spelling?) is set by the browser, not
the server. So if you're not seeing a value, then your browser is not
setting it. Or something is stripping it on the way out from your
computer.
---John W. Holmes...
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