Tracking URL

[MajorTechie]

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out how to create a tracking URL. The kind of URL that has something appended at the end
(?source=yadayada) so that you know where your users have come from. Is this usually done with CGI? I've sometimes seen it done using backend scripting, such as CGI, (although I know how to do it using ASP).

Any help would be great,

Thanks

 

[goBoating]

remote_host()
Returns either the remote host name or IP address. if
the former is unavailable.

referer()
Return the URL of the page the browser was viewing prior
to fetching your script. Not available for all browsers.

This is an example of using the CGI.pm module to report the remote IP (or host name) or the remote user and refering page.

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use CGI;
my $q = new CGI;
my $rh = $q->remote_host();
my $ref = $q->referer();
print $q->header,
    $q->start_html,
    &quot;RH: $rh<br />REFERER: $ref&quot;,
    $q->end_html;

'hope this helps

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