note 125050 added to reserved.variables.server

To expand a bit on the price you could pay for relying on 'HTTP_REFERER': several large news sites I read often have paywalls, with cookies in place so you can only read X articles before you must subscribe; if using Incognito, they count the number of times you accessed via the same IP; everything to get you to subscribe. However, in order to be appealing, any visit where the 'HTTP_REFERER' is Google News will give you the entire article. I'm sure it's a dilemma their webmasters have, but for now any time someone sends you a story on one of them, all you have to do is search for the title and click the result from Google News. Bottom line: never count on it. PS (1): ofcourse i'm talking about a friend. I pay for content. PS (2): after some debate, the RFC decided to keep 'HTTP_REFERER', although it's misspelled. ---- Server IP: 45.112.84.4 Probable Submitter: 103.51.166.36 (proxied: 2a02:ed0:5904:2600:c07f:1954:5da2:2d05) ---- Manual Page -- http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.server.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/125050 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/125050/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/125050/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/125050/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/125050/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/125050/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/125050/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/125050 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/125050 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php