cgi.referer disappearing

[lwfg]

I'm losing the value of cgi.referer in 2 situations:

1. When I submit from a.cfm to b.cfm when b.cfm opens in a Javascript window.

2. When b.cfm is refreshed with a meta tag.

If I could distinguish a call from a.cfm to b.cfm from a refresh of b.cfm, it would be super helpful.

 

[TruthInSatire]

Referrer is a pretty unreliable thing.

I don't believe there is a referrer when a new window is open so it makes sense to me that there isn't one. I could be wrong but i'm not surprised.

as for it just not being there, i'm not surprised either. clients can hide/spoof it anyway so i avoid using it.

Vegans are friends, not food...

 

[cfSearching]

Referrer is a pretty unreliable thing

+1 on all points

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[LyndonOHRC]

Have you thought of testing for button?

<!--- buttontest.cfm --->
Form <cfif IsDefined("Form.MySubmitButton")>
	Submitted
<cfelse>
	Refreshed
</cfif>
<br>
<form action="buttontest.cfm" method="post">
	<input name="MySubmitButton" type="Submit" value="MySB">
</form>

Lyndon

---People Remember about 10% of what you say ---They never forget how you made them feel. Covey

 

[lwfg]

Thank you for the reply. Yes, I'm already using that in a similar context and plan to check referer with it too.

 

[cfSearching]

You mean check referrer with IsDefined()? Normally, it is always defined. It may be empty, but still defined.

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[LyndonOHRC]

No, I ment to see if checking if the submit button in the form was clicked in the previous document and not be concerned what that document was; sometimes that can be the solution.

Lyndon

---People Remember about 10% of what you say ---They never forget how you made them feel. Covey

 

[cfSearching]

Sorry Lyndon. My comment was meant for lwfg.

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[lwfg]

Sorry I wasn't clear. Not cgi.referer but what the referer corresponding to a button name in it.

 

[TruthInSatire]

have you guys considered

<form action = "handler.cfm?from=#cgi.script_name#">
or
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="60;url=http://yoursite.com?metarefresh=true">

you can also pass the cgi.script_name when opening a new window in JS. that should take care of knowing what the referring page is.






Vegans are friends, not food...

 

[LyndonOHRC]

At the risk of stating the obvious.... I was looking at using referer for an administrative task on my intranet and saw this gem.

I copied this off of w3c:

HTTP_REFERER Returns a string containing the URL of the page that referred the request to the current page using an <a> tag. If the page is redirected, HTTP_REFERER is empty

The empty string in referer now has meaning...

Lyndon

---People Remember about 10% of what you say ---They never forget how you made them feel. Covey