[Xerte-dev] Re: $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] issue

[Pat Lockley]

it was always more of a - this is the best we can do botch job than
anything meant to be brilliant.

The alternative is some sort of LMI adapter - or some GET PGP string?

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 1:46 PM, David Goodwin <david at palepurple.co.uk> wrote:
> The HTTP_REFERRER variable is supplied by the user's browser when a request is made - so you can't really trust it.
>
> And I suspect various anti-virus products may well block / remove it when requests are made in the name of privacy.
>
> David.
>
>
> On 26 Jan 2012, at 12:59, Julian Tenney wrote:
>
>> Anyone got any bright ideas: when you set access to other, you can specify a domain to restrict access only to links being followed from that domain: so you can have some sort of gatekeeping in any system the user has to log in to, and then only allow access to links from that system.
>>
>> This is the code, it uses $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'].
>>
>> It doesn’t work in IE. Cosmic.
>>
>> Any alternative approaches without having to modify the linking system?
>>
>> This is the code:
>>
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