Mike,
thanks for the heads up.. cause I was trying to figure out why my
computer wasn't sending anything and the default settings blocks that.. so
going to do a redirect with a url variable so I can watch for that.
Troy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Kear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 1:07 AM
Subject: RE: Read the url a person came from??
> Troy, as others have said, it's CGI.HTTP_REFERER, but don't use it if its
> presence is critical to the application. I learned this when I was
looking
> at CGI.HTTP_REFERER to see if someone had the right to see the page if he
> was looking for (the logic : if you're logged in there, then you must be
ok
> to see this page, otherwise, out you go!). But our customer service dept
> got gazillions of calls from people who couldn't get access to what they'd
> paid for. Our users were a particularly paranoid lot and typically had
> their cookies turned off and firewalls set on 'stun' and privacy settings
up
> to the max. Those people didn't pass the CGI.HTTP_REFERER to our app.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
> Michael Kear
> Windsor, NSW, Australia
> AFP Webworks.
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Troy Montour" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 3:01 PM
> Subject: Read the url a person came from??
>
>
> > Hello,
> > I was wondering if someone can point me in the right direction on
what
> > variable stores the url someone came from?
> >
> > we are doing 2 domains and 1 points to the other domain and I want to
> detect
> > how many people come from the other domain.
> >
> > is one of CGI var's storing this info??
> >
> > Thank you
> > Troy Montour
> >
> >
>
>
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