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[Anthony Wlodarski]

I was seeing some odd behavior myself recently.  It seems Firefox 3.0 
masks it as "(none)" for some reason so that may be an issue to look into.

-Anthony

Steve Manes wrote:
> 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.
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