Aha, is there any way to figure out where a user comes from every time? On Mar 2, 5:53 pm, Hassan Schroeder <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- > Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ [email protected] > twitter: @hassan
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