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Posted by Rik on 08/20/06 06:53
Flaming Corncob wrote:
> In article <44e794d7$0$47828$dbd41001@news.wanadoo.nl>,
> Juliette <jrf_no_spam@jokeaday.net> wrote:
>
>> Flaming Corncob wrote:
>>> In article <44e75e66$0$66091$dbd4d001@news.wanadoo.nl>,
>>> Juliette <jrf_no_spam@jokeaday.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Flaming Corncob wrote:
>>>>> Using $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], you might get (for example)
>>>>> http://widgets.com/test/test_new.php?page=2. Is there a way to
>>>>> extract the "widgets.com/test/test_new.php" portion of it and
>>>>> store it in a string?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks much.
>>>>
>>>> Have a look at: http://www.php.net/parse-url
>>>
>>> Yep, saw that after the fact. Unfortunately ended up with another
>>> problem. Sometimes the url comes through as blank. Nadda. Nothing.
>>
>> That is not a 'problem', but a feature.
>> Think real world: someone might have bookmarked the page. No
referrer
>> will be send then.
>> Also, the referrer can quite easily be spoofed or removed by a
>> semi-experienced web-user.
>> Never make your code dependant on it.
>>
>> Have a look at the documentation of the $_SERVER array and the user
>> comments.
>
> So there's no real way to force a page to check for a certain
> condition
> and reroute itself to itself to set a page for example? ... I pulled
> it
> off by having one single variable used to equal one thing and if
it's
> not it assumes the user is visiting the site from somewhere other
than
> in the site itself.. if that happens it sets the key variable to
what
> it expects and reroutes back to itself passing the key in the url. I
> just hoped there was a better way of doing it.
Is soons a very lot like a session? What exactly are you planning to
use it for?
Grtz,
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Rik Wasmus
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