Re: HTTP_REFERER

Tom, I sort of do the same here,... think you'll find that index.html is the 'default index' for a directory when a page isn't specified on your web server and that she's going to http://www.domain.com Hope this helps. Jim..... "Tom Hilton" <tom-hilton@mchsi.com> wrote in message news:20020325195248.26117.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > Hi, I am using the $HTTP_REFERER variable to ensure that users of a website > are getting to a certain page through a link from the index.html page, and > not going straight to the page through a bookmark. > > $page=$HTTP_REFERER; > if ($page!="http://www.somedomain.com/index.html") > { > echo "<h3>Please log in through the home page</h3><br>"; > echo "<META HTTP-EQUIV='Refresh' > > CONTENT='1;URL=http://www.somedomain.com/index.html'>"; > } > This is working fine for most users, but one user is telling me that even > though she is following the link from the index page, she's still getting > the error message, and are being bounced back to the index page. She is > using Internet Explorer 6.0. Are there any security or privacy settings > that might restrict use of the $HTTP_REFERER variable? Or is there a better > way to make sure users follow links to pages, rather than bookmarking and > going straight to a page? Thanks for any help you can give me. > >