Re: [PHP] Interesting Referer behaviour- how to copy it?
Dotan Cohen wrote: On 8/5/05, Jochem Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: he runs php5, you run php4 - is the following set on his server perchance?: echo $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; //or echo getenv("HTTP_REFERER"); note that $HTTP_REFERER is depreciated in php5. also the freeBSD box may have a firewall that is stripping the referer header - freeBSD is the paranoid man's *nix of choice after all - at least all the security freaks I know prefer it. actually I did a bit of googling and there is a slim possiblity that the firewall software on your PC is munging the referer header - try turning it off also proxy servers may be stripping the header. Thanks, Jochem, for looking into this. I just this minute figured out my mistake- I was typing in the address out.php into the browser, because I was expecting the referer to be out.php. But, the referer that is sent is the page that LINKS to out.php!! As there was nothing linking to it, there was no referer! I'm now digging a deep hole to bury myself in... have a spade on me my friend ;-) Dotan http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/137/crosby_stills_and_nash.php Crosby, Stills And Nash Song Lyrics -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Interesting Referer behaviour- how to copy it?
On 8/5/05, Jochem Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > he runs php5, you run php4 - is the following set on his server perchance?: > > echo $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; > //or > echo getenv("HTTP_REFERER"); > > note that $HTTP_REFERER is depreciated in php5. > also the freeBSD box may have a firewall that is stripping the referer header > - freeBSD is the paranoid man's *nix of choice after all - at least all the > security freaks I know prefer it. > > actually I did a bit of googling and there is a slim possiblity that the > firewall software on your PC is munging the referer header - try turning it > off > > also proxy servers may be stripping the header. > Thanks, Jochem, for looking into this. I just this minute figured out my mistake- I was typing in the address out.php into the browser, because I was expecting the referer to be out.php. But, the referer that is sent is the page that LINKS to out.php!! As there was nothing linking to it, there was no referer! I'm now digging a deep hole to bury myself in... Dotan http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/137/crosby_stills_and_nash.php Crosby, Stills And Nash Song Lyrics -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Interesting Referer behaviour- how to copy it?
Dotan Cohen wrote: I creating a out.php file that will record clicks, and the redirect the user to the site that he wanted. I am currently using header("Location: $url"); which works as expected. The only problem is, that the browser does not send $HTTP_REFERER info to the recieving site. However, that particular site is also linking to me via a out.php file, and the browser DOES set $HTTP_REFERER on my site. So I've been googleing for two days, and came up with this: There is a site that displays the server reesponse of any server. So I put both of our out.php files to the test. First, his server response: HTTP/1.1 302 Found Connection: close Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 15:19:01 GMT Location: http://lyricslist.com Server: Apache/2.0.50 (FreeBSD) PHP/5.0.0 Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-Length: 0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Client-Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 15:32:32 GMT Client-Response-Num: 1 X-Powered-By: PHP/5.0.0 he runs php5, you run php4 - is the following set on his server perchance?: echo $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; //or echo getenv("HTTP_REFERER"); note that $HTTP_REFERER is depreciated in php5. also the freeBSD box may have a firewall that is stripping the referer header - freeBSD is the paranoid man's *nix of choice after all - at least all the security freaks I know prefer it. actually I did a bit of googling and there is a slim possiblity that the firewall software on your PC is munging the referer header - try turning it off also proxy servers may be stripping the header. This redirects to lyricslist.com and correctly sets the $HTTP_REFERER variable. Now, my server response: HTTP/1.1 302 Found Connection: close Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 15:39:25 GMT Location: http://lyricslist.com Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.3.11 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7a Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-Length: 0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Client-Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 15:39:29 GMT Client-Response-Num: 1 X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.11 This just does not set the $HTTP_REFERER variable! The referer variable is even set to the original page that linked to out.php, and not out.php itself! I have tried in IE 6.x, Firefox 1.0.6, Pheonix 0.7 (remember that!), and Opera 8.0. What could be the difference? Thanks to all who rack thier brains on this one! It's been a fruitless two days for me... Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/118/chumbawamba.php Chumbawamba Song Lyrics -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Interesting Referer behaviour- how to copy it?
I creating a out.php file that will record clicks, and the redirect the user to the site that he wanted. I am currently using header("Location: $url"); which works as expected. The only problem is, that the browser does not send $HTTP_REFERER info to the recieving site. However, that particular site is also linking to me via a out.php file, and the browser DOES set $HTTP_REFERER on my site. So I've been googleing for two days, and came up with this: There is a site that displays the server reesponse of any server. So I put both of our out.php files to the test. First, his server response: HTTP/1.1 302 Found Connection: close Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 15:19:01 GMT Location: http://lyricslist.com Server: Apache/2.0.50 (FreeBSD) PHP/5.0.0 Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-Length: 0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Client-Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 15:32:32 GMT Client-Response-Num: 1 X-Powered-By: PHP/5.0.0 This redirects to lyricslist.com and correctly sets the $HTTP_REFERER variable. Now, my server response: HTTP/1.1 302 Found Connection: close Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 15:39:25 GMT Location: http://lyricslist.com Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.3.11 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7a Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-Length: 0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Client-Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 15:39:29 GMT Client-Response-Num: 1 X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.11 This just does not set the $HTTP_REFERER variable! The referer variable is even set to the original page that linked to out.php, and not out.php itself! I have tried in IE 6.x, Firefox 1.0.6, Pheonix 0.7 (remember that!), and Opera 8.0. What could be the difference? Thanks to all who rack thier brains on this one! It's been a fruitless two days for me... Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/118/chumbawamba.php Chumbawamba Song Lyrics -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php