The following reply was made to PR general/3211; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Marc Slemko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Brant Pickard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: general/3211: HTTP_REFERER does not work
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 12:23:16 -0700 (PDT)

 On 14 Oct 1998, Brant Pickard wrote:
 
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > http://www.webnautics.com/cgi-bin/refer.pl -- ENV print out....link to it 
 > and you
 > will see the REF: is blank!
 
 Sorry, it isn't blank:
 
 HTTP_REFERER : file://localhost/tmp/foo.html
 
 Double check what you are doing, and be sure you are linking to it from a
 page got via HTTP and not from a local file, since some clients won't send
 referers from local files.
 

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