For your purposes this is probably fine, but readers should realize this is not guaranteed effective; the browser can send whatever it wants as the referer, and I think there are some "privacy-oriented" and other customized browsers that don't send anything at all. -----Original Message----- From: Tony Gruen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 2:00 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: User history..where are users coming from? ahhhh... methinks thou art great, all who have helped me with this ponderous dilemma. T -----Original Message----- From: Howie Hamlin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 9:04 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: User history..where are users coming from? If your site is www.site.com then you could do something like: <cfif findnocase("www.site.com",cgi.http_referer) is 0> <cflocation url="www.site.com"> </cfif> HTH, Howie Hamlin - inFusion Project Manager On-Line Data Solutions, Inc. www.CoolFusion.com 631-737-4668 x101 inFusion Mail Server (iMS) - the World's most configurable mail server Get your free copy of iMS POST-SE Server from CoolFusion! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Gruen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 8:06 PM Subject: User history..where are users coming from? > I have been searching past posts and our reference texts looking for this > but I cannot seem to find anything. > I want to be able to ensure that visitors to certain parts of our site are > actually arriving there by browsing our site. We have outside vendors > linking to product manuals and downloading them from their site. When this > happens I would like to bounce them to our home page and deter vendors from > using our site to provide services to their customers. It is ok if someone > surfs our site and downloads the manuals. > > We have considered using session variables but that would require > restructuring the existing site. I seem to remember a variable http_referrer > but I can't find anything on it. Am I close? Any suggestions are > appreciated. > > Thanks in advance, > > Tony Gruen > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
