Re: PHP3 and HTTP_REFERRER

by Kevin Haidl <kevinh(at)actofmind.com>

Date:	Thu, 22 Jun 2000 17:20:51 -0700
To:	jonblake(at)lw-oasis.org, hwg-languages(at)hwg.org
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I saw somewhere that the HTTP spec uses "HTTP_REFERER" (sic).  That's what 
works in perl so I suspect it plagues php too.

At 04:20 PM 6/22/2000 -0700, Jonathan Blake wrote:
>I'm making my first foray into PHP, and I'm wondering if there's some kind
>of gotcha that I don't know about. I'm doing something as simple as:
>
>  <?php echo( $HTTP_REFERRER ) ?>
>
>but I get nothing. For other HTTP variables like USER_AGENT, the above
>works. Yes, I'm going to the page through a link - not through bookmarks
>or by hand typing the URL into the browser. Is this some kind of server
>misconfiguration?
>
>--
>Jon
>
>"Semper ubi sub ubi!"
>Loosely translated: No unfurnished basements!

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