note 61113 deleted from reserved.variables by philip

Note Submitter: Gerry ---- In relation to Mr. Obvious' comment concerning using apache_request_headers() to get a more reliable referer. I don't believe this works as both it and PHP would be retrieving the information from the 'referer' header. All you would be doing by using apache_request_headers() is giving yourself more work. Some test code which shows that both are identical: <?php $host=apache_request_headers(); echo "\$host['Referer'] = {$host['Referer']}\n"; echo "\$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] = {$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']}\n"; ?> You can edit the referer using a tool such as the LiveHTTPHeaders extension for Firefox. If there was a more accurate way of determining the referer, then PHP would most likely be doing it.