Derek wrote:
I am very sorry, apparently this list does not like HTML emails, so I now see
my first email was blank! Glad to see that it nevertheless sparked the
creativity of the group!

Well, I for one am sorry you've disrupted our fun. Hmph. :)

I have a standalone that a user downloads by clicking a button on a download
web page. My conundrum is, I would like the standalone to know from what
website the user originated when they clicked a link to jump to the download
page.

For example, let's say http://bob.com has a link that says "Go download this
thing now!", and the link on Bob's web page is something like:
http://thedownloadsite.com/downloadpage.html?referrer=bob

It's easy for PHP code in the landing download page to get the information
that "Bob sent them" with a $GET. But how on earth will the Revolution
standalone know about Bob?

One thought: PHP gets the info and sends it to the download server via a POST action to a CGI on the download server. The download server's CGI parses the parameters and writes the info to a file or database. When the standalone launches on a user's machine, it does a "get URL" of the CGI on the download server, which looks up the data and returns it.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     [email protected]
HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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