ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER")
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Topic: ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER")
Posted By: chris@artwebs.c
Subject: ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER")
Date Posted: 14 March 2003 at 3:11pm
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What is wrong with this code? Session ("CC_referingURL")=request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER") Why does it always return "None" in the page and not the ("HTTP_REFERER")
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Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 14 March 2003 at 3:20pm
| Because probably noone is linking to your site (from an other domain that is) |
Posted By: Nigelo
Date Posted: 14 March 2003 at 4:40pm
Maybe I'm missing the point but why not recode as follows:
Your example resets Session(CC..) to "None" whenever the Referrer is anything other than a ZLS which is the reverse of what you intended. Hope this helps |
chris@artwebs.c wrote:Posted By: chris@artwebs.c
Date Posted: 15 March 2003 at 12:20pm
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Thanks Nigelo I have changed the code and it still does not work I have links to this site, but always get "None" , do all servers support request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER")? Can this be switched off on the server? |
Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 15 March 2003 at 12:38pm
| I don't think you can deny a single server variable and it might be that it is only supported on win2k, don't know. |
Posted By: chris@artwebs.c
Date Posted: 15 March 2003 at 12:50pm
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Ok So, any ideas why it don't work?
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Posted By: Nigelo
Date Posted: 15 March 2003 at 6:56pm
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Have taken another look and think that retrieving the referer should be seperated from your Database write as follows: strRef=request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER") ------------- Hope this helps Nigel |
Posted By: chris@artwebs.c
Date Posted: 16 March 2003 at 3:44am
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Hi Nigelo, Still no joy: Dim strRef Always return "None" even if I write strRef to the page or database. I have links on other sites, other domains and even in Google.
This should work....just can't see why it don't. |
Posted By: Bunce
Date Posted: 16 March 2003 at 4:03am
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What do these return if you put them at the end of your code:
response.write request.servervariables("HTTP_REFERER") response.write strREF response.write Session("CC_referingURL") ------------- There have been many, many posts made throughout the world... This was one of them. |
Posted By: chris@artwebs.c
Date Posted: 16 March 2003 at 8:34am
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Hi Bunce This is the result writen to the page the ("HTTP_REFERER") is blank? HTTP_REFERER= strRef= None CC_referingURL= None |
Posted By: Bunce
Date Posted: 16 March 2003 at 7:11pm
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Then I think its probably being blocked somewhere. Referer is not very reliable and can be blocked by Server / ISP and be spoofed by the client. If you do a quick search on google for Blank HTTP_Referer you'll find a number of links describing the issue. Cheers, ------------- There have been many, many posts made throughout the world... This was one of them. |
Posted By: chris@artwebs.c
Date Posted: 18 March 2003 at 2:50pm
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Thanks Bunce Must be being blocked somewhere. Will use a bit of java script instead to get the referer Thanks for your help |
Posted By: Bunce
Date Posted: 18 March 2003 at 3:55pm
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You can try, however if its getting blocked then I doubt it will matter what language you try as its not available... Cheers, ------------- There have been many, many posts made throughout the world... This was one of them. |