possible or not?

[Anon]

i m working on a search site and other sites will put my search form on their pages and once their visitors search they will come to my site to see the search results. does anybody know of a way that i can know the external page's referer? ie: is there something i can put along with my form (that they ll copy&paste in their page) that will reveal their referer? thakns

eg: visitor A goes to site B that contains my search box/form. once A submits form he comes to my results page. i need to know where A was before B. is it possible or not?

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No.

The REFERER contains the URL of the page that contains the link that cause the request.

A surfs to site B and clicks a link to site C, C will see B as the referer.

The only way you can get the location of the browser before B is if B itself gives you the REFERER data of the request that brought A to B. But that only works if A clicks a link to get to B, and B is willing to post REFERER information in it's HTML pages.

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A forum, a FAQ, email notification, what else do you need?

Time to YAPF!: http://www.hvt-automation.nl/yapf/

[Anon]

thanks, thats what i was afraid of...