The *real* URL

The real URL

Anon

OK, I've searched for this on the boards... how to construct the URL of the current page being called.

Best suggestion I've found so far has been:

$url = "http://$HTTP_HOST$PHP_SELF?$QUERY_STRING";

Which works in 99% of the cases, I guess... EXCEPT, in my little hell.

If the url in the browser is:

http://localhost/?a=home

the $url formula above results in:

http://localhost/index.php?a=home

i.e., it includes the script name, even though the script name isn't really in the URL.

Is this just a symptom of the way the web server translates URL requests based on 'default' page settings? Is it beyond PHP's control? Running this on Win2k/IIS 5, btw.

Thanks,