On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:30 PM, David <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm trying to save the site that a user came from when they sign up.
> Right now I have a before_filter in my ApplicationController:

>      session['referer'] = request.env["HTTP_REFERER"] unless
> session['referer']

> Then when a user is created, it checks this session variable and sets
> it to nil. This is buggy as it only works sometimes and I cannot seem
> to figure out why.  Any ideas what could be going on?

Because HTTP_REFERER is *not* a required header, and in fact
some security software blocks it for privacy reasons.

So you just can't count on it being available.

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