Re: Page Referer question

On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 13:34, Jed R. Brubaker wrote: > Hello all. I am looking to create script will detect the page from which the > user just came so that after they do something on the current page (login) > it will send them back to the page they wanted. I was thinking about > $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], but php.net says: > > 'HTTP_REFERER' > > The address of the page (if any) which referred the user agent to the > current page. This is set by the user agent. Not all user agents will set > this, and some provide the ability to modify HTTP_REFERER as a feature. In > short, it cannot really be trusted. > > Is this a big problem? Is there another technique I could use? > > Thank you all! If a user takes the time to modify this, should it be a concern? If I don't want you to know where I came from and made sure you didn't know, what else can you possibly do aside from snoop? ;-) I'd bet that 99.99% of the people who surf the net do not modify this so the exception is very minimal. -Robby -- /*************************************** * Robby Russell | Owner.Developer.Geek * PLANET ARGON | www.planetargon.com * Portland, OR | robby@planetargon.com * 503.351.4730 | blog.planetargon.com * PHP/PostgreSQL Hosting & Development ****************************************/

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