Re: (new question on this) http referer

On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 12:36, Duncan Hill wrote: > On Thursday 08 April 2004 17:31, Joe Szilagyi wrote: > > Just a follow up on this one--I've seen where consistently that > > $HTTP_REFERER will only show local referers, but not stuff from other > > sites/hostnames. This is on mod_php... any workaround for that? > > Referrer is a function of the browser. If it chooses to not give it to you, > you don't get it. Proxomitron, at one point, shipped with a setting that > gave the browser as SpaceBison, and the referrer as the URL being visited. Opera let's you choose whether to send the referrer or not. it also lets you specify the browser to send so that you can trick some sites that are poorly implemented (or restrictively) to think you are using IE. Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'