Re: HTTP_REFERER

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From: Bill (nowhere_at_fooemail.com)
Date: 10/17/04


Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 14:47:09 -0400

Some firewalls, like Symantec's, allow you to disable HTTP_REFERER. Like
Andrew said POST data & querystrings are more reliable.

"James" <cppjames@aol.com> wrote in message
news:OrKDblrsEHA.2536@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> I'm using:
>
> Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER")
>
> And apparently this isn't "reliable" anymore? As in, some
> browsers/firewalls don't allow it? A small block of my code is based on
> knowing what page you were previously on, so this would be a problem. Any
> ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
>
>



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