Please keep in mind that what you describe is a behaviour of one particular
user agent.
Some UAs just never send referer for anonymity. (Sometimes proxy will do
that for them). Some do it for links from a web page, but not from a file://
URL. Some don't care for the URI scheme, and you get referer's from one's
bookmarks on the disk.
So, I think, the moral of the story is that basing your site logic on smth
that requires particular way of referer tracking is not the best option. You
probably want to use some means of session control if you want to make it
more standard/portable (there are many ways of doing it - discussed lots of
times around here). I agree, however, that if you are aiming at some local
community and you are pretty sure about their least common denominator of
referer-sending behaviour, the CPU wasted at your server will be less if you
check the referer.
I personally use referer only for xrefs validation/stats purposes.
Vassilii
http://www.tarunz.org/~vassilii
-----Original Message-----
From: Stef Telford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 2:36 PM
To: siberian
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: HTTP_REFERRER and Mod_perl
When i link, they do. So i guess the moral of the story here
is that meta tag redirects DONT set the REFERER variable
at all.
