Re: Problem with script requiring valid referrer

From: Lawrence Statton (lawrence_at_cluon.com)
Date: 02/08/05

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Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 11:42:52 -0800

    > On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Chris Schults wrote:
    >
    > > In both cases, our visitors swear that they are linking to these
    > > scripts from valid Grist pages. Any ideas why some people are getting
    > > the error messages? I've asked for browser and O/S info, but many are
    > > using the same setup we are using, which works just fine.
    >
    > This is really a question for the CGI list, but whatever.
    >
    > Have you looked in the web server logs? Are you recording referer data?
    > If not, you should be, it's useful in cases like this. If you're
    > recording it, you should be able to verify or refute the claims.
    >
    > With that information at hand, you can figure out what step comes next.
    >

    I agree with Devers ... users are notorious liars, not through malice
    but often ignorance. There is a population of paranoics out there who
    configure their browsers to either not issue referrer at all, or
    tomangle it in an effort to obfuscate their activities.

    My instinct tells me: If the CGI::referrer() call is not giving you
    what you want, then it's unlikely that the browser is correctly
    passing in the header.

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