Re: IE & $HTTP_REFERER...

On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 11:49 AM, Matthew Walker wrote:

I just ran across a very strange problem with IE. When I use javascript to open a new window (Using window.open()), the page that is loaded in the new window does not get any HTTP_REFERER. Does anyone know why this is, and if other browsers will have the same problem? I use Mozilla, and it passes the referrer properly.

Well, from what I understand you're not guaranteed to have access to the HTTP_REFERER (depends on the browser/user agent), so relying on it isn't a good idea (as your example demonstrates). I have gotten around this by using $_SERVER['QUERYSTRING'], and loading this into a hidden form field, or you can write a function that takes this value and transforms it into ASCII and then urlencode() the ASCII code to put it into a link, or you could pass it as an argument to your JavaScript function, or what have you. Erik ---- Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown pricee@hhbrown.com