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trouble with document.referrer

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raindogs

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This is my first time messing with the document.referrer tag in javaScript, and I'm afraid it's giving me some trouble. It all seems very simple and I'm having no problem getting the other document methods to work, but this one just refuses to get in line. Here's my test code:

<HTML>
<HEAD>

<title>refer test</title>

</HEAD>
<BODY>

<P>
<script LANGUAGE=JAVASCRIPT
TYPE="TEXT/JAVASCRIPT">
<!-- Hide script from old browsers

document.write('<P>Here\'s the URL: ' + document.URL);

document.write('<P>Here\'s the last modified info : ' + document.lastModified);

document.write('<P>Here\'s the referrer: ' + document.referrer);

//-- Stop hiding script -->
</SCRIPT>
</body>
</HTML>

The document.URL and document.lastModified work fine, but referrer never shows up. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong here?

Thanks,
Alex
 
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referrer should only have a value if you navigated to the current page by a LINK in another page. (I believe)

How are you testing it?

--Dave


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O Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience! [infinity]
 
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Sorry, I should have mentioned that I am testing it by navigating from another page. The page with the JavaScript code is called "refer.html" and I am linking from another test page with the following code:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>
Link to refer page
</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<P>
Go to the <a href="refer.html">referrer display page</a>
</body>
</HTML>

This all seems like it should work, is there something I'm missing?
 
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From MSDN:

bold=mine said:
This property returns a value only when the user reaches the current page through a link from the previous page. Otherwise, document.referrer returns an empty string; it also returns an empty string when the link is from a secure site.
Click to expand...

Is your first site 'secure'?


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O Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience! [infinity]
 
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No, I don't belive so. I've tried it on a server and locally on my Desktop, and it steadfastly refuses to work.
 
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Works fine for me... I put a link to the file within itself and put it on a server. First load it's blank, then once I click the link it's giving correct information... pretty much the same setup you are using.

I tested using Safari 2 on MacOSX... then I switched to Windows and tested IE 5.01, IE5.5, IE6, NN7, NN8, FF, OP7, OP8 and had no problems. I'm picking that you might have some "safe surfing" anonymiser or something that specifically doesn't send the (optional) referrer header.

Oh, one thing springs to mind... are you testing this by uploading the file to a web server?

Cheers,
Jeff

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