Short answer: Yes. I've been running and logging referer tests for about 6 months now. I get an email every time one fails, and record all initial 'incoming' visitors in a db that logs, among other things, browser type and referer value.
Every once in a while I'll have a user get 'refered' in from my own site, which should be impossible given the tests I run. Only maybe 1 out of 100 fail, and the failure appears to be random... sort of. It appears to be restricted to IE 5.x and AOL browsers after AOL 4.0. However I haven't tried to quantify this other than eyeballing the reports. On occasion, maybe the browser drops the ball and somehow loses the referer value. This could also be user behavior: Lets say for some reason a page doesn't load properly for whatever reason. a user could place their cursor in the Address field at the end and hits the ENTER key. That would do it, too. (i.e. user 'arrives' at a page after hitting 'Enter' and actually refreshes it. The next link is a referred link in from my own site). ----------------------------------------- Matt Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSB Designs, Inc. http://mysecretbase.com ----------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sima Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 8:20 AM Subject: cgi.http_referer problem <snip> So the question is: Is there any other situation when the cgi.http_referer would not be get set? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
