On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 02:12:56PM -0700, Denzil Kruse wrote:
> I want to know the web site that someone came from,
> and so I was planning on reading $ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'}
> to figure it out. How reliable is that?
Reliable enough for general interest and for finding some sites with
links to moved pages on your site. Not reliable enough to depend on.
> Do browsers or other situations block it or obfuscate it?
Often. Its an optional header, isn't supposed to be sent when arriving
from an https page, and is munged by a goodly number of personal
"firewalls".
> Is there another way to do it
No
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