At 13:57 30-01-00 , Eric J Hoffman wrote:
>I have a script in which I need to watch for a referring url, 
>if condition is true, then move to another page.
>
>However, URL variables are appended from here to Texas 
>on the referring site....does this server variable (http_referer) 
>just look at hostname (www.whatever.com) or take in account 
>*everything*?

As far as what the server process looking at the variable does, that is up
to the server process.  As the environmental variable name indicates, the
contents are what has been passed from the browser via the HTTP header
Referer [sic]. That should be a full URL, or can quite legitimately be
omitted. See the HTTP 1.1 (or HTTP 1.0) specification for details.

Note that while several popular browsers (shamefully) fail to respect the
privacy concerns recommended in the HTTP specification, a number of fire
wall and proxy-server products rectify the shortfall, and are becoming
increasingly popular.

As far as what is provided in typical (representative) situations, why not
just look at representative HTTP dialogs?

Safe computing,  /Harold

ps. Quite frankly, I've no interest in your private email, and would
strongly suggest that you spare us the insult of such serious breech of
Netiquette. Further, please turn off any attempt to harvest email addresses
via return-receipt requests... not only are they annoying but given the
tone of your messages it is difficult to give you the presumption of an
oops rather than dastardly behavior.
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