I've a system that relies quite heavily on CGI.SERVER_NAME.
Is there a more robust an alternative to this?
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On 10/17/06, Richard Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've a system that relies quite heavily on CGI.SERVER_NAME.
Is there a more robust an alternative to this?
I prefer to use CGI.HTTP_HOST. In Apache - at least with 1.3 a few
years ago - CGI.SERVER_NAME returned the value in the ServerName
Matt Williams wrote:
On 10/15/06, Claude Schneegans wrote:
The http_referer vartiable is set and transmitted by the browser,... if
it wants to.
If the browser does not set it, the CF server will not get it.
How rude of the browser! Is this a setting the user can control?
If the user knows
This is quite normal.
You cannot rely on the referer exisitng as so many things stop this data
being transmitted.
Anti-virus, anti-spyware, proxy servers, firewalls to name a few
Russ
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From: Matt Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Does the browser tend to do this with other CGI variables or is it mainly just
the referer one?
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tracking purposes may not be sent.
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From: Richard Cooper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 16 October 2006 10:18
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Apache, IE cgi.http_referer
Does the browser tend
On 10/16/06, Snake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any variable that is considered personal information and can be used for
tracking purposes may not be sent.
Russ
But can anybody explain why the variable shows in Firefox, but not IE?
This makes me think there's an IE setting - maybe the security or
But can anybody explain why the variable shows in Firefox,
but not IE? This makes me think there's an IE setting - maybe
the security or privacy level. I'll play around with those.
There may well be a setting that you could change, that would change this
specific instance of behavior. But in
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From: Matt Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 10:47 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Apache, IE cgi.http_referer
On 10/16/06, Snake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any variable that is considered personal information and can be used
for
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On 10/16/06, Doug Bezona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Honestly though, the conclusion you probably should be coming to here is
not to depend on the referrer info being present for anything
meaningful, since there are a lot of things a potential user could have
installed, or ways a browser might be
So the question at hand should be how can you make a link that will go
back one page (that page being unknown) and refresh it
By unknown, do you mean literally any arbitrary page on the internet,
or an arbitrary page from within your site/application?
If it's the former, there probably isn't a
By unknown I simply meant that it could be one of several possible
pages within the site. So yes, all potential pages are internal and we
do have control over those.
A littel more detail... The initial page has a drop down select box.
In the on change of that select I redirect to another page
cgi.http_referer
The http_referer vartiable is set and transmitted by the browser,... if
it wants to.
If the browser does not set it, the CF server will not get it.
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The http_referer will only exist if the page load is a result of a link
click or a form submission. If you just type the URL into the addy bar,
then it will be an empty string.
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From: Matt Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On 10/15/06, Claude Schneegans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
cgi.http_referer
The http_referer vartiable is set and transmitted by the browser,... if
it wants to.
If the browser does not set it, the CF server will not get it.
How rude of the browser! Is this a setting the user can control?
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The http_referer vartiable is set and transmitted by the
browser,... if it wants to.
If the browser does not set it, the CF server will not get it.
How rude of the browser! Is this a setting the user can control?
Not directly from within a standard browser, although there are lots of
Are you by any chance running a security suite such as Zone Alarm, Norton
Internet Security or the like?
The 'privacy' function of these packages often include scrubbing the referrer
info from your browser requests.
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From: Matt Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: CF-Talk
How rude of the browser!
Also note that is there is no referrer, the browser will not tell there
is one ;-)
The referrer is the page you clicked to get into the next page.
If the user gets directly to your page, by typing the address or by
bookmark,
there is no referrer.
Is this a setting
On 10/15/06, Doug Bezona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are you by any chance running a security suite such as Zone Alarm, Norton
Internet Security or the like?
Nope. Pretty straightforward here.
Matt Q. said:
The http_referer will only exist if the page load is a result of a link
click or a form
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