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[Steve Manes]

PaulCheung wrote:
> Could somebody point me in the right direction or make any suggestion??
> 
> On Exiting the "my" application, I want to return the user back to the 
> original "jump-off point" just before they entered the application, 
> wherever that may have been. I believe I can capture the URL save it 
> until required. I have readup on HTTP_REFERER, which I think is correct, 
> but it appears there might be a problem with this and this is it -  
> "HTTP_REFERER is not passed by some older browsers"

Some of the older browsers, including I believe Opera, let you mask 
HTTP_REFERER as a security option.  A lot of proxy servers also don't do 
a good job with it.  As a fallback, it might be more effective to cache 
the URI_REQUEST when the user first hits the page.