--- Mike Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "James Keeline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >When HTTP_REFERER works it shows the page which contained a link to your > >site that was followed by the web visitor. > > Agreed. And when HTTP_REFERER *doesn't* work, is there any way to > determine the page containing the link to my site? > > In other words, can I determine what web site may have an outdated link > to my site? > > Mike
That's obviously one of the drawbacks of the HTTP_REFERER. If it isn't part of the HTTP request, you really don't know what site was visited previously. You can do some special google searches to see who links to your site. Since there is a difference between say link:http://www.Stratemeyer.org and link:http://Stratemeyer.org then I would imagine you could use a full URL to see which sites are providing the old link. Of course, if you are really clever, you can set up a system to try to guess what content they really wanted and redirect or provide a link to the new location of the data. This is just one of the fun things you can do with an ErrorDocument apache directive and a PHP script. James ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/6pRQfA/fOaOAA/yQLSAA/HKFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Community email addresses: Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shortcut URL to this page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-list Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
