Re: Are They Lying: $_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"] Question
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Re: Are They Lying: $_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"] Question

From: Daniel Tryba <partmapsswen@invalid.tryba.nl>
Date: Mon Jun 13 2005 - 16:16:16 CEST



Good Man <heyho@letsgo.com> wrote:


> My question is:  is $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERRER'] reliable?



Short: No 



Slightly longer: with the referer you depend on the client and


all involved proxies to supply information.


Received on Mon Oct 17 20:51:19 2005