get user's referer

[enterume]

Hi,

1) How can i get the user referer when they visit any page to my site? is it only available to POST form method? 😕 What I trying to do here is, when i set the session.use_trans_sid = 1 , whoever got the phpsessid can by pass my security checking, since I store the uername and password as session.

Any idea how to solve this?

2) if i set session.use_trans_sid = 0 , where the session() being save? I find that if i do session.use_trans_sid = 0, it doesn't work in certain pc, may be their browser problem (like IE5.x, netscape 4.x) . Any idea?

Thanks
Louis

[eriksmoen]

$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']
$HTTP_REFERER
$HTTP_SERVER_VARS['HTTP_REFERER']
session.referer_check
etc...

if you create a php page with
phpinfo();
in it, it should show you the different ways of finding the referrer.

hope that helps.

[trooper]

Be aware that if the user comes to the page by typing in the url directly there wil be no http_referer information.

It will not be present in any of the above mentioned arrays

HTH

GM

[enterume]

is it avialable in any php4.2.x version?

[diego25]

Yes.

Diego