[Kaikki]

Hi all

I have searched hi and lowfor an answer to this question and am hoping that someone can help me with a solution to an alternative to this problem.

Basically the HTTP_REFERER function is not working for me as it returns no values? I have tried various versions of writing it and nothing works (I have even checked the spelling of the word as I can see that many people have had problems due to incorrect spelling )
The method that I am using is written like this:
<%= Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERRER")%>
The above version returns nothing.
The pages URL that I am requesting is the page a visitor was on before they CLICKED A LINK from that page to this one(emailfriend link).

The method <%= Request.ServerVariables("URL")%> is working but is not useful to me as it just returns the address of the LINK that the User pressed.

Does anybody have some other method of retrieving a page address other than using the HTTP_REFERRER?

Hope somebody has some ideas.

Kind Regards
Kaikki

[Stealth]

<%= Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER")%>

Some firewalls especially norton firewall block the referer so the client sends it back blank. this is probably where your falling.


my my calculations from a table which logs the referers against a return of no referer (blocked by firewall, proxy etc) approx 35% of users had no referer. This figure wont be exact but its pretty accurate

[Kaikki]

Originally Posted by Stealth

<%= Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER")%>

Some firewalls especially norton firewall block the referer so the client sends it back blank. this is probably where your falling.


my my calculations from a table which logs the referers against a return of no referer (blocked by firewall, proxy etc) approx 35% of users had no referer. This figure wont be exact but its pretty accurate

Hi Stealth, thanks for the fast reply

You are absolutely correct about Norton. Is there an alternative way of getting the refferer? I need it for email friend form, rather than passing each and every URL manually to the email page. (I have alot of pages that are not running with a database).

Kind Regards
Kaikki

[Xtremist]

you could always put something that would tell you what page you were on....

Example.... Here is the page with the email to friend link.... it has a button or link that is this....

http://www.mysite.com/emailtofirend....e=thispage.asp

Then you have in the form where they enter the info a hidden field that request the current page... when submitted it does the e-mail and whatever data inserts and then responses redirects to the request.querystring or form currentpage...

does that make sense.... basicly pass that to two pages..... sorry if I sound like I've had a few beers but I have

[Stealth]

Originally Posted by Kaikki

Hi Stealth, thanks for the fast reply

You are absolutely correct about Norton. Is there an alternative way of getting the refferer? I need it for email friend form, rather than passing each and every URL manually to the email page. (I have alot of pages that are not running with a database).

Kind Regards
Kaikki

Theres no other way to get the referer since it will be blocked. but do as Xtremist says. Put the request.servervariables("URL") or request.servervariables("PATH_INFO") into a hidden input in your form

<input type="hidden" name="referer" value="<%=request.servervariables("PATH_INFO")%>">

[Kaikki]

Hi Xtremist and Stealth,

Thanks for both of your feedback and advice, it is as usual very much appreciated

I will try the two ways that you have both suggested and figure out which one works best for me.

Thanks again,

Kind Regards
Kaikki

[EzASPSite]

There are many other options you can use such as putting the SCRIPT_NAME combined with QUERY_STRING and saving together in a variable to pass on.

Look over all the Request.ServerVariables Objects here:

http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/092298-3.shtml