Re: Re[4]: [PHP] (new question on this) http referer

On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 14:07, Richard Davey wrote: > Hello Robert, > > Thursday, April 8, 2004, 7:04:24 PM, you wrote: > > RC> I don't think this works in general. For instance some ISPs can have the > RC> user's IP change between page requests (incuding redirects). AOL is an > RC> example of such and ISP. > > That doesn't make any difference in this instance. > > scriptA receives the POST data > scriptA then in turns POSTs that to scriptB which outputs the result > back to a variable in scriptA > scriptA displays it, effectively - the proper page > > At no point has the user been redirected anywhere. Aaah ok. That makes more sense to me :) Sorry was confused by the use of the word redirect. Thought you were redirecting the user to an alternate script with the reposted data. I'm not sure I understand how this is more secure since isn't the data as valid as the first time it was posted? 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. | `------------------------------------------------------------'