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[PaulCheung]

Hi Chris ,

I genuinely believe that I have a misunderstanding of what the HTTP_REFERER 
is all about. I was trying to grab the address just before the user entered 
"my" application.

In my INDEX.PHP,  I used an extra script named LOGIN.PHP, where the 
HTTP_REFERER was captured.  Then in turn LOGIN.PHP called another script 
named LOGON.PHP which picked up the HTTP_REFERER information. which in my 
case is the url name of  my INDEX.PHP, Which of course pointed the way into 
the application in the first place.

Within the application HTTP_REFERER works just fine. I can see its potential 
and some importance possible uses within applications.

I am guessing the way around my problem is to forget the use of HTTP_REFERER 
and just put the user back to the login page and let the user press the back 
button to let themselves out, or is there a more elegant way to do what I 
want??

Cheers - Paul

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "csnyder" <chsnyder at gmail.com>
To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 8:01 PM
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] Returning users from whiniest they came


> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 2:39 PM, PaulCheung <paulcheung at tiscali.co.uk>
> wrote:
>> I have tried running the HTTP_REFERER using the one liner below and
>> nothing
>> happens
>>
>> <?php
>>   echo $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
>> ?>
>>
>> I cannot see why it should not work on my hosted Linux website, as it
>> works
>> on this site
>>
>> http://unix.cms.gre.ac.uk/code/php/examples/http_referer.php
>>
>> Paul
>
>
> You are using a link on another page to get to your referer test, right?
>
> Try print_r( $_SERVER ) to see if the $_SERVER superglobal is being
> set in the first place.
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