Chris Knowles wrote: > Sarah Peeke wrote: >> Hi Martin and others, >> >> On 19/1/08 1:45 AM, Martin Heiden wrote: >>> 2. HTTP-Header Referrer - may be supressed by proxies/firewalls or the >>> user >>> You can access it via (PHP|Java|ASP|...) or by JS document.referrer >> Just out of interest, what happens when HTTP-Header Referrer is >> suppressed? Does the page remain unchanged, is there a 404, or some >> other error? >> > > Sarah, > > Referer is just one HTTP header - it is separate from response codes > (200, 404 etc) and other headers. No error is thrown if it's not present > so content is passed on as normal. But because HTTP headers can be > changed along the response chain from server to client they can't be > relied upon. > >
actually, I should have said "changed along the request/response chain between server and client". -- Chris Knowles ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
