[CLUE-Tech] Apace/PHP Brain-Cramp on HTTP_REFERER?

[Jed S. Baer]

On Tue, 09 Apr 2002 17:13:16 -0600
Garey Hoffman <ghoffman at sumaato.com> wrote:

> Yes, PHP and Apache are playing nice together ---- at least it is doing
> so on my installation of PHP 4.1.2 (I just checked it).
> 
> I was able to get the variable $HTTP_REFERER to come up using PHP 4.1.2 
> only when it was set. For instance, if I go to "test.php" directly, it 
> doesn't set $HTTP_REFERER (I turned register_globals On) in any of the 
> places you'd think you'd find it. I was able to get it to come up, as 
> expected, by writing a little HTML page that contained an href link to 
> "test.php". Once I clicked on the link and viewed the list of places
> that HTTP_REFERER is available, the information was in every single
> expected place.

A good thought. I tried this out - cut/pasted your code. No luck for me,
verified that register_globals on.

Just to be precise about what I got here:
  SERVER_SOFTWARE => Apache/1.3.22 (Unix) PHP/4.1.1

Warning: Undefined variable: HTTP_REFERER in
/home/jbaer/public_html/php/test.php on line 5 Warning: Undefined index:
HTTP_REFERER in /home/jbaer/public_html/php/test.php on line 8 Warning:
Undefined index: HTTP_REFERER in /home/jbaer/public_html/php/test.php on
line 11

I dunno. But thanks for the effort. Maybe I'll just have to get on
php-builder, or one of the mailing lists.

jed
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