Re: 'HTTP_REFERER'
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Re: 'HTTP_REFERER'

From: windandwaves <winandwaves@coldmail.com>
Date: Thu Oct 13 2005 - 12:33:17 CEST

Kai Birger Nielsen wrote:
> In <1129163717.987264.113260@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> "juglesh"
> <jugleshjunk@hotmail.com> writes:
>
>
>> cool
>
>>> I just read through your script. Why are you getting people to
>>> submit the same url that they came from? or did I misunderstand
>>> your script?
>
>> I'm showing them what they typed in, so they can make a change and
>> then go.
>
> A minor addition:
> You need to use an absolute path for images in
> your 404 document because relative paths are interpreted relative
> to the bad url rather than to the path of the 404 document.

A noticed what you describe above. That is catch22 because relative means
that you can use $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] while absolute means that "nested"
path work (e.g. www.246.dk/blah/blah/blah/blah/). Solution: use <base
href="http://www.246.dk"> in your html.
Received on Tue Oct 18 02:41:04 2005