On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 12:52, Ben Souther wrote: > The browser generates the HTTP headers and there are some rules > governing when they are to be sent. > http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html > > This isn't really Tomcat specific so I'm marking [OT] > You may find more enthusiastic help on a JSP/Servlet list. > > -Ben > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 12:30, Paul Taylor wrote: > > I have a WebPage which can be called from two different webpages, and I > > wanted it to have a back button. > > > > Originally I had the calling pages passing a parameter to tell the > > called page what called it. Then someone pointed > > out <%=request.getHeader("REFERER")%> to m. This works much better. > > > > But I have 2 questions: > > 1. Where are these header values defined I've not beeen able to find a > > good source. > > 2. It worked when coming from my pages but I then tried going to > > another page (e.g www.sun.com) and then pasting in the url and it just > > returned null. Does referer only apply when hyperlink from another page ? > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
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