[nycphp-talk] Returning users from whiniest they came
Anthony Wlodarski
anthony at thrillist.com
Wed Jul 9 16:21:55 EDT 2008
I was seeing some odd behavior myself recently. It seems Firefox 3.0
masks it as "(none)" for some reason so that may be an issue to look into.
-Anthony
Steve Manes wrote:
> PaulCheung wrote:
>> Could somebody point me in the right direction or make any suggestion??
>>
>> On Exiting the "my" application, I want to return the user back to
>> the original "jump-off point" just before they entered the
>> application, wherever that may have been. I believe I can capture the
>> URL save it until required. I have readup on HTTP_REFERER, which I
>> think is correct, but it appears there might be a problem with this
>> and this is it - "HTTP_REFERER is not passed by some older browsers"
>
> Some of the older browsers, including I believe Opera, let you mask
> HTTP_REFERER as a security option. A lot of proxy servers also don't
> do a good job with it. As a fallback, it might be more effective to
> cache the URI_REQUEST when the user first hits the page.
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