[Cialug] php $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] and https requests

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

My guess is that the browser chooses not to send a referrer header when 
switching from https to http pages (or perhaps for anything https 
related). If the browser fails to send the header, i don't think there 
is an easy way to generate it. If the https request was accessing a 
page on the same server i suppose you could grep the log for the 
client's IP and look for the last thing that is a page (as opposed to 
an image), but since browsers have back buttons that wouldn't be 
guaranteed accurate.

On Tuesday 14 August 2007 11:30, David Champion wrote:
>Dumb question... I'm checking the $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] in a php
>page, but if the href comes from a https page, the referrer is empty.
>Checked the apache access_log shows a "-" where the referrer would be.
>
>Is there a way to get the referrer or ip address from a https request,
>or am I sunk?

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