Re: Page Referer question
| From: | Jed R. Brubaker | Date: | Thu, 12 Aug 2004 20:52:00 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Page Referer question | ||
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Thank you all for the great feedback.
"Jed R. Brubaker" <jrb21398@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:20040812203638.21912.qmail@pb1.pair.com...
> 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!