Some products, such as Nortons Internet security, will block referrer information in the name of 'privacy'. So while it may be set by the browser, a 3rd party application is preventing it from being passed through.
~ C -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Berend de Boer Sent: Thursday, 19 August 2010 12:49 p.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [phpug] Issue with HTTP_REFERER and 301 Moved redirection >>>>> "Nathan" == Nathan Kennedy <[email protected]> writes: Nathan> "refer variable wasn't always set (which is weird)" I've Nathan> come across this on browsers / proxies that have paranoid Nathan> privacy settings. Therefore, I wouldn't depend on it being Nathan> set to make a site function, but can be useful for Nathan> statistical information or, in this case, display a Nathan> customised page. Of course you can turn off referrer, but not set at all, versus sometimes not set is quite different. -- Cheers, Berend de Boer -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
